Over 53,000 people are infected with Covid-19 in the Mediterranean nation. FMTNews Italy
Undertakers carry a coffin out of a hearse at a cemetery in Bergamo, Italy.
The Mediterranean nation has notched a rapid succession of records that seemed unimaginable when a retired Italian builder became the first person in Europe to die of the new illness exactly a month ago.It then reported another 1,420 deaths on Friday and Saturday that took its total higher than that reported by China and Iran – the nation with the third-most official fatalities.
“If you do not follow all the measures, you make everything more difficult,” Italy’s top medical expert said.But the Italian government appears intent on making more or less everyone stay indoors as much as possible at any cost.Those who were out shopping were forced to wait in line at the entrance to make sure the store was filled with only a handful of people at a time.
The country has been setting them every day since Wednesday and the jumps are getting exponentially bigger.Lombardy has been under a lockdown since March 8 and the government had hoped to see results there first.
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