Italy has announced the entire country will be placed into quarantine conditions in its government’s most dramatic step yet to contain the second largest outbreak of coronavirus outside of China.
Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minster, from Tuesday imposed restrictions on the movement of the whole of Italy, a population of over 60m people, with Italians instructed to limit leaving their houses unless for urgent health or work reasons.
Italy’s prime minister vowed to impose “massive shock therapy” on the country to fight the explosion in cases of coronavirus as the government began to enforce a lockdown of northern regions and riots erupted in dozens of prisons.