Under coronavirus lockdown, Italy is finding a fragile sense of solidarity | Jamie Mackay
On Monday evening the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, announced that the whole of Italy was to be designated a "protected zone", and placed under lockdown as cases of Covid-19 in the country rose to 9,172, with 463 deaths. For the next month, until 3 April, 60 million Italians will be obliged to remain at home, and have been ordered to go outside only for "urgent" work, to attend health appointments or to purchase basic provisions. Bars and restaurants will be forced to close at 6pm, and people have been asked to maintain a distance of a metre from one another in all public spaces. One of the biggest controversies so far has been a ban on visiting friends and relatives. Many Italians have taken to social media to assert their right to enjoy a traditional Sunday dinner with the extended family.
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