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| Italy to shutter ALL businesses besides pharmacies & grocery stores as coronavirus outbreak continues to spread | Italy to shutter ALL businesses besides pharmacies & grocery stores as coronavirus outbreak continues to spread |
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| Italy will shut down most businesses across the country amid a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, leaving only pharmacies, food markets and certain “essential” factories open. | Italy will shut down most businesses across the country amid a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, leaving only pharmacies, food markets and certain “essential” factories open. |
| Bars, hair salons, restaurants and all other businesses not necessary for production will be forced to close, Conte said in a televised address on Wednesday. The move comes as Rome steps up containment measures to combat the spread of the lethal coronavirus, including nationwide travel restrictions. | |
| “We will only be able to see the effects of this great effort in a couple of weeks,” the prime minister said, later noting the new measures would come into effect on Thursday and remain in place until March 25. | |
| Italy saw its deadliest day yet for the outbreak on Wednesday, reporting another 196 fatalities – an increase of over 30 percent – bringing the total in the country to 827, with nearly 12,500 confirmed cases. Over 2,000 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours. | Italy saw its deadliest day yet for the outbreak on Wednesday, reporting another 196 fatalities – an increase of over 30 percent – bringing the total in the country to 827, with nearly 12,500 confirmed cases. Over 2,000 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours. |
| Travel restrictions were extended from the northern Lombardy region – where the outbreak was first observed in Italy – to the entire country on Monday, after the total number of cases soared to over 10,000. The nationwide lockdown will require commuters to obtain permits to travel beyond their immediate quarantine zone, with a threat of jail time or fines for those who violate the new measures. | |
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