Italy has been fighting the Corona virus hard for weeks. The country has now extended the stringent exit restrictions. The latest developments in the news ticker.
- Italy was particularly affected by the Coronavirus * pandemic .
- The death toll and Covid-19 infected are increasing despite drastic measures.
- Italy has extended the exit bans to slow down the infection with the new Sars CoV-2 corona virus .
- Here you will find our guide to corona reporting * as well as basic facts about the corona virus. You can also find current case numbers in Germany as a map.
Update, 7.47 p.m .: Italy reported more than 720 deaths in the course of the Corona pandemic - but the increase in the number of people currently infected remains stable. By Wednesday, the number of positives currently recorded rose by 2937 to 80,572, said the civil defense. That was an increase of less than four percent. Including the dead and healed, the total number of infections identified was 110 574. There were 727 dead, a total of 13 155. However, the pressure on the clinics seems to be decreasing. In the intensive care unit, only 12 were added.
Corona in Italy: Mafia senses their chance, warns experts
First report from April 1st:
Rome - There has been a curfew in Italy since March 9 due to the Corona pandemic. Schools and universities are closed too. To combat the spread of the novel Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus, the government has closed all stores and businesses. Factories and businesses that were classified as not essential to life had to close in a second step. An entire country under quarantine.
Italy has now extended the existing exit restrictions to April 13. In the beginning, the harsh restrictions applied until April 3. The cabinet made the relevant decision after consulting the scientific advisers, said Health Minister Roberto Speranza on Wednesday (April 1) in the Senate in Rome.
Corona crisis in Italy - do the exit restrictions work?
The Corona crisis particularly affected Italy. The number of people who tested positive for the Sars-CoV-2 virus in Italy * is over 105,000. More than 12,000 people have already died of Covid-19 lung disease or its consequences (as of April 1). The grief for the fatalities is great. Especially since over 60 doctors and nurses died as a result of an infection with the coronavirus.
In Italy, however, 15,729 Covid-19 patients have recovered, according to the Ministry of Health (as of March 31, 6 p.m.).
A glimmer of hope has emerged in the past few days: the number of newly infected people did not increase as much as in the previous weeks. According to experts, this development should now continue over a longer period.
60 million Italians are therefore no longer allowed to leave their homes and apartments. So far, the population has largely accepted the tough measures without major protests. However, voices from politics, the media and business were also heard recently, asking about the political plans for the end of the restrictions.
Corona crisis: Italy's mafia senses their chance
The corona pandemic has plunged the Italian economy into the abyss, the AFP news agency reports. Many companies will therefore not survive the crisis. Organized crime, however, rubs its hands. "The Italian mafia can turn threats into opportunities," Giuseppe Governale, head of the Anti-Mafia Agency (DIA) told AFP . The mafia "is already planning carefully for the time when the economy will be rebuilt," says investigator Governale. "There will be a lot of money in circulation." His agency is already working on a plan to prevent the mafia from infiltrating.
Corona virus in Italy: A worker in a protective suit cleans the floor in the Piazza des Duomo in front of the Duomo in Milan.
© dpa / Daniele Mascolo
Corona in Italy: infection rate compared to Germany
Researchers assume that the infection rate with the novel corona virus in Italy would be around 10 percent compared to other European countries. This would have been estimated by Imperial College in London. The researchers base their analysis only on the number of reported deaths from the lung disease Covid-19 . The number of confirmed infections is considered to be less meaningful because there are large differences in the number and type of tests from country to country. Germany therefore has a significantly lower infection rate than other European countries. Based on statistical calculations, the researchers assume that on March 28, less than one percent of the population in Germany was infected with the novel pathogen.
UPDATE: #Coronavirus Europe (11 countries)
➡️1.88% to 11.43% of population infected with # COVID19 up to 28th March
Interventions have already impacted control of the epidemic
Interventions have saved between 21,000 & 120,000 lives
Report https://t.co/xX0aKeQoM6 pic.twitter.com/WQ2kDuWFVq
In addition to Italy, Spain is particularly affected by the Corona pandemic *. According to the health authorities, the situation in the hospitals appears to be easing somewhat.
In Germany, the existing contact blocks * have now been extended until after Easter. The federal government and the federal states had decided a week and a half ago in the fight against the spread of the corona virus a comprehensive ban on contact.
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