Ramping up restrictions. As nations around the world try to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, Italy takes the unprecedented step of putting the entire country under lockdown.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the new measures will last until April 3. Individuals should only go out if they have work or health-related issues to deal with, or if they have other pressing needs.
People are banned from gathering outdoors, schools are closed, and restaurants have to close at 6 p.m.
Four hundred sixty-three people in Italy have died from the virus, and nearly 9,200 have been infected. Italy — with a population of 60 million and the eurozone's third largest economy — now has the second highest number of cases after China.
On Sunday and Monday, inmates in the country's prisons rioted after visiting rights were restricted due to the coronavirus. The justice ministry said seven inmates died.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said the new measures will last until April 3. Individuals should only go out if they have work or health-related issues to deal with, or if they have other pressing needs.
People are banned from gathering outdoors, schools are closed, and restaurants have to close at 6 p.m.
Four hundred sixty-three people in Italy have died from the virus, and nearly 9,200 have been infected. Italy — with a population of 60 million and the eurozone's third largest economy — now has the second highest number of cases after China.
On Sunday and Monday, inmates in the country's prisons rioted after visiting rights were restricted due to the coronavirus. The justice ministry said seven inmates died.
◆ramp up 増大させる、強化する
◆mitigate 軽減する、鎮める to make a situation or the effects of something less unpleasant, harmful, or serious SYN alleviate
◆unprecedented 前例のない、前代未聞の never having happened before, or never having happened so much
◆lockdown 封鎖、閉鎖 a time when all the doors in a building are locked in order to protect the people inside from danger
◆pressing 差し迫った、緊急の needing to be discussed or dealt with very soon SYN urgent
◆inmate 受刑者、服役者 someone who is being kept in a prison