Italy Shuts Down Non-Essential Factories After Nearly 800 Coronavirus Deaths in 24 Hours
- Italy Shuts Down Non-Essential Factories After Nearly 800 Coronavirus Deaths in 24 Hours
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The average age of Italians who have died from coronavirus is 78.5.
Italy has shut all non-essential factories after recording another record coronavirus toll that brought its fatalities to 4,825 – over a third of the world’s total and a grim reminder that the pandemic remains out of control.
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“The decision taken by the government is to close down all productive activity throughout the territory that is not strictly necessary, crucial, indispensable, to guarantee us essential goods and services,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a dramatic late-night TV address. The 55-year-old Italian leader stressed that groceries and pharmacies would remain open and did not spell out what “indispensable” companies were.
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“We will slow down the country’s productive engine, but we will not stop it,” Mr Conte said. 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.
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