COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Massive Quarantine. The situation in Italy is just hard to even comprehend.
That is one quarter of the country.
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Italian PM signs lockdown decree affecting millions
The new measures will apply to more than a quarter of the Italian population – about 16m people – and will be in force at least until 3 April.
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Italy Plans Large-Scale Lockdown in Country’s North to Fight Coronavirus
Quarantine, if approved, would ban movement into and out northern provinces, including Milan, Venice and Parma
The Italian government is locking down 17 million people—more than a quarter of its population—including in Milan, the surrounding Lombardy region and 14 neighboring provinces, in the most sweeping steps any European country has prepared to take against the coronavirus epidemic.
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