Italy at a crossroads as fears grow of Covid-19 second wave
by Lorenzo Tondo in Caltanissetta from on (#572MA)
New infections are rising, raising questions over lockdown easing and planned reopening of schools
It took a weekend to take Italy back three months in its struggle against the pandemic. Last week's rapid increase in coronavirus infections risks erasing the progress made by the first European country to be engulfed by Covid-19 and extending the closure of schools in September.
The alarm was sounded last Saturday, when Italy registered 629 new cases in 24 hours, up from 500 on the previous two days. Such numbers recorded in a row had not been seen since May, when Italy cautiously emerged from one of the longest lockdowns in the world after more than 30,000 Covid-related deaths.
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