NSTworld Alarm as Italy reports 1,200 new Covid-19 cases
The new rules include telling people not to enter or leave Lombardy, which is home to some 10 million people, as well as 11 provinces in four of Italy’s 19 other regions, according to a draft decree seen by Reuters.
However, at midnight, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte had still not signed off on it, after the leaked draft prompted pushback from the governors of Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna, another region affected.If the draft is approved, leave will be cancelled for all healthcare workers, weddings, funerals and sports events suspended, and home working should be adopted as much as possible.
The epidemic is already weighing hard on Italy’s struggling economy and Rome has pledged to spend €7.5 billion to tackle the outbreak and its consequences. The number of coronavirus cases in Italy, Europe’s worst-hit country, reached 5,883 on Saturday, the civil protection agency said, the biggest daily rise since the epidemic began just over two weeks ago.
On Friday, the government approved a plan to employ up to 20,000 new doctors and nurses to respond to the emergency.
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