BREAKING: New isolation/travel restrictions for all of Italy...

[brooklynite]

Link to tweet

All schools to remain closed until April (were supposed to re-open next week). No public attendance at sporting events.

[PA Democrat]

1. Italy has 9172 cases and 463 deaths as of today.

[HotTeaBag]

3. Holy cow.

Just wait until it digs in here.

[Roland99]

2. Supposed to fly there this summer

Yikes

[sunonmars]

4. They are obviously seeing something progressing fast.

[Roland99]

5. Imagine if the whole world had hit "pause" two months ago

[Baclava]

6. 'Unprecedented': Italy expands lockdown to entire country of 60 million

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced Monday that a lockdown already in place for the northern part of the country would be expanded to the entire nation, an “unprecedented” move meant to better contain the growing outbreak.

All travel in the country is now banned except in cases of emergency, and all sporting events have been canceled.

Additionally, all public gatherings of any kind are now prohibited. “There won’t be just a red zone,” Conte said in reference to areas of the country already in lockdown. “There will be Italy.”

The shutdown will extend school closures across the country of 60 million people until April 3.

“This night life...we can’t allow this anymore,” Conte said. All restaurants, bars, and cafes nationwide will have to close at dusk under the new lockdown.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-italy-coronavirus-outbreak-20200309-of5cgkkmcrho7ol2p2nky2eacq-story.html