The Italian government declares the lock-up on the north of the Peninsula
In this large territory in the north of the country, which stretches from Milan to Venice and where more than 15 million Italians (a quarter of the population), museums, sports halls, swimming pools, nightclubs, games rooms and pubs must remain closed, according to the decree signed overnight by the head of government Giuseppe Conte.
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Milan, headquarters of the Italian stock exchange, which will normally open on Monday, has just under 1.4 million inhabitants, and ten million people live in Lombardy, the industrial heart of the peninsula. With 233 dead, lSecond after China in number of deaths related to the coronavirus, and to the 3rd behind China and South Korea for the number of positive cases (nearly 6,000 to date).
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The containment measures concern the whole region of Lombardy, but also the provinces close to Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, the Marche region, and Veneto.
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In Belgium, we have reached the threshold of 200 infected people
The number of confirmed new coronavirus infections has increased to 200 exactly in Belgium. Of the 422 samples analyzed on Saturday by the network of the KULeuven reference hospital, 31 were positive for Covid-19 (16 in Flanders, 8 in Brussels and 7 in Wallonia), said the FPS Public Health Sunday late morning.
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On Saturday, the number of new positive cases was still 61 out of a total of 771 analyzes. As of Friday, there were 59 new cases out of 441 samples.
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“This slight drop in positive cases is explained by several reasons. The return of travelers from northern Italy may end. In addition, the priority of analyzes is for the moment given to samples of people whose symptoms could lead to hospital admission and to healthcare professionals. This prioritization is due to the global problem of delivery of reagents, which are products required to perform the analyzes. Finally, during weekends, the laboratory always notes a decrease in the number of samples submitted“, underlines the federal public service.
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Foreign Affairs advises against traveling to northern Italy
Foreign Affairs adapted their travel advice to Italy on Sunday. They now advise against non-essential travel to the north of the country until April 3, can be read on the website of the Federal Public Service. The whole region of Lombardy is concerned as well as the following 14 provinces: Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, Pesaro and Urbino, Venice, Padova, Treviso, Asti, Alessandria, Novara, Vercellie and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.
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