ROME, April 26 — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said today that schools will only reopen in September but many businesses will resume as early as next week as the country emerges from a near-total coronavirus shutdown. Conte told La Repubblica daily that he will spell out the detail of how...
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Italy could not continue a lockdown past May 4. — Reuters pic
Italy’s official death toll of 26,384 is Europe’s highest and only second globally to the United States. “We cannot continue beyond this lockdown—we risk damaging the country’s socio-economic fabric too much”. Italy’s stay-at-home orders were announced nationally on March 9 and require everyone to stay within about a block of their front door.
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