BREAKING: All Of Italy — The Entire Country — Is Now On Coronavirus Lockdown
Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced Monday that coronavirus lockdown measures were being extended to the entire country, with travel to be restricted to reasons of work, health and emergencies.Public transport would continue to work, Conte said, in order to allow people to get to work. But people would have to explain why they were travelling, and any movements and gatherings outside those permitted would not be allowed.
People in Milan who are now subject to the lockdown want to know if the Italian government and regional and local authorities should have acted faster."It's clear that Milan does stop," Daniele Costenaro, who works for Amazon in the city, told BuzzFeed News."It's surreal that in two weeks we've gone from a handful of cases in a barely known town [Codogno] to the entire city of Milan in lockdown.
The rollout of the measures has exposed the government's struggles to communicate effectively since the initial cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, were first reported in January."It's disturbing,” said Lorenzo Pregliasco, the cofounder of the market research agency Quorum, told BuzzFeed News."If you look at what the experts were saying back then, it was immediately clear that coronavirus was a very serious matter.
"The government was anxious to not spread panic and has moved a little awkwardly. On the one hand, they took a 'wait and see' approach to maintain the impression of life carrying on as normal and then realized too late that it wasn't possible,” Costenaro said. Inside the area affected by the lockdown, some residents have been left confused by what the measures, which include restrictions on movements to and from the affected areas except for urgent travel, actually mean for everyday life.
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