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Italy’s death toll leaps by 97 in one day to 463 as alarming photos emerge of patients hooked up to life support machines inside quarantine-zone hospital while medics in hazmat suits battle to save them

03/10/2020

 

  • Lockdown in Italy extended nationwide as previous measures were no longer sufficient to contain outbreak
  • New government decree requires all people to demonstrate a need to travel outside the areas where they live
  • Despite increased lockdown passengers arriving from Italy to Britain will not be screened for coronavirus 
  • Photos emerged in Cremona of medics in protective suits with gloves, goggles, face masks treating patients
  • Giuseppe Conte pleaded with Italians to ‘protect the health of our loved ones’ by obeying the new lockdown
  • He told people not to ‘counter these measures or dodge them’ after 16million people were put in quarantine
  • Police were today manning checkpoints in Lombardy after the region and 14 provinces were shut down
  • Italy’s death toll soared from 133 to 366 yesterday, becoming the highest in the world outside China 
  • The spike marks a 20 per cent rise in the coronavirus death rate within 24 hours in the European country 
  • Foreign Office said British tourists ‘are free to return home or complete their holiday’ under Italian guidelines
  • Six prisoners died amid jailhouse riots across Italy in protest at a ban on family visits because of coronavirus

Travel restrictions are being imposed across Italy nationwide as the whole country goes into lockdown to try to halt the spread of the new coronavirus.

Italian premier Giuseppe Conte said on Monday night that a new government decree will require all people in Italy to demonstrate a need to work, health conditions or other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live.

Conte said he is extending restrictions on travel from the north to the entire country of 60 million people in a new move to try to stop the spread of the virus that has so far killed more than 460 in Italy.

The premier also took to task young people in much of Italy who have been gathering at night to drink and have a good time during the public health emergency that started on February 21.

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