The government has taken containment measures to try to curb the epidemic.
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Thees 52,000 residents of 11 cities in northern Italy woke up on Sunday in quarantine, barred from entering and leaving their area, after an abrupt increase in cases of new coronavirus and the first two deaths of Europeans in the continent.
The government passed a very strict legislative decree on Saturday evening which puts 11 cities in isolation, 10 in Lombardy (Milan region, north-west) and 1 near Padua in Veneto (Venice region, north-east). “Neither entry nor exit will be permitted unless there is a specific exemption,” said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, adding that about 52,000 people are affected. While calling on the population to observe a kind of self-quarantine, the government has provided for sanctions of up to three months’ imprisonment for violating these limitations.
Saturday evening, the head of civil protection Angelo Borelli had announced 76 new indigenous cases, including the two deaths, in addition to three patients treated in Rome (including a healed) who had contracted this viral pneumonia virus outside Italy.
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89 cases in Lombardy
But Sunday, the president of the Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, member of the League (far right), spoke of higher figures, with “more than 100 cases” in the country including 89 in Lombardy, claiming “increased border controls “. And the boss of the Veneto region Luca Zaia announced Sunday a toll of 25 contaminated including 19 around the second identified Italian home, the village of Vo ’Euganeo near Padua. The toll at 2:30 p.m. in the peninsula is more than 130 dead.
Closure of all public places including businesses and schools, cancellation of cultural and sporting events and school excursions throughout Italy and abroad … The government has taken containment measures to try to put under bell a part of Lombardy and Veneto in order to slow down the epidemic.
This Sunday, it was decided to close all schools in Lombardy, Veneto and Piedmont.
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