The corona situation in Italy remains worrying.
After curfews in the country at night, Germany is now responding with travel warnings.
A huge problem for many.
Due to the current
Corona situation *
, the
Lombardy
and
Campania
regions want to
introduce
a night
curfew
.
Virologists warn in
Italy
of a "risk that the system will explode in the next few weeks."
Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte
asks
well-known
influencers
for help
to implement the
Corona * measures
.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from October 23, 8:35 a.m
.: The pandemic situation in
Italy is
worsening: The country's health authorities recorded more than
16,000 new corona infections
within 24 hours
on Thursday
- a high.
The day before it was almost
15,200
.
In total,
more than
465,700
people
have been proven to be
infected
in the Mediterranean country with around
60 million inhabitants
, and the number of
deaths
in connection with the
Sars-CoV-2 virus
rose by
136
to 36,968
on Thursday
.
As with the first wave, the
hotspot
is
Lombardy in
northern
Italy
with
Milan
as the capital.
+
A musician with mouth and nose protection in a subway station in Milan: As with the first wave, the city is currently a corona hotspot.
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Corona in Italy: Germany occupies almost the entire country with travel warnings - bitter news for winter vacationers
Update from October 22nd, 11:06 am:
Germany is reacting to developments in Italy.
The regions of Aosta Valley, Umbria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Veneto, Latium, Abrruzzo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia-Romagna, Sardinia and the autonomous province of Bolzano - and thus South Tyrol - are now also considered risk areas.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) put other regions and areas on the red list on Thursday morning due to the increasing number of corona infections.
According to the RKI, the official travel warning will take effect from Saturday, October 24th at 00.00.
For the South Tyrolean tourism experts, the nightmare has come true, because the winter season is just around the corner and with it the opportunity for many to earn money with ski vacationers.
But now German travelers and all those who enter the Federal Republic of Germany from South Tyrol would have to go into quarantine for ten days from Saturday or submit a negative corona test.
Update from October 21, 4:35 p.m.:
From Thursday evening,
a night
curfew will
apply in
Lombardy
.
For a
violation
against the stricter rules in the northern Italian region, which includes
Milan
and
Bergamo
include, threatening severe penalties.
As the Italian newspaper
Corriere della Sera
reports, the authorities can
impose fines between 400 and 3,000 euros
for violations
.
Corona in Italy: Lombardy imposes nocturnal curfew
Update from October 21, 9:35 a.m.:
The northern Italian region of
Lombardy is
imposing
a
night curfew
due to the spread of the
corona virus
.
From Thursday, people have
to stay at home
from
11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
, the authorities said.
Exceptions are possible for medical or professional reasons.
The measure should
last
until November 13th
.
In the southern Italian region of
Campania
, a night curfew will also apply from Friday.
Italy's Health Minister
Roberto Speranza
had
already given his approval to
the measure in
Lombardy
on Monday evening.
"This is an appropriate and symbolically significant initiative that should not have particularly serious economic consequences," said regional
president Attilio Fontana of
the newspaper
La Repubblica
.
Campania's regional
president Vincenzo De Luca also
announced a
curfew
from 11pm on Friday.
However, he did not say how long the measure should apply.
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The night
curfew
is the
strictest measure
to contain the
corona pandemic
in
Italy
since the end of the national
lockdown
imposed in spring
.
Corona in Italy: Worrying numbers - Lombardy and Campania are planning additional measures
Update from October 20, 5:20 p.m.:
In addition to
Lombardy
, the Italian province of
Campania
is now also planning
nocturnal
exit
bans
due to the rapidly increasing
corona numbers
.
This was announced by the regional president of Campania,
Vincenzo De Luca
, on Tuesday.
The exit bans should start in the region in the south, to which the city of
Naples
belongs, on Friday evening.
First report from October 20:
Rome - The
Corona situation
in
Italy
is, as in large parts of Europe *, currently worrying.
The number of new infections exceeds that of spring.
At the weekend,
Italy
reported
a new
record
with
11,705 new corona cases
within one day
.
On Monday there were just under 10,000 new corona infections.
Nevertheless, the heavily affected
Lombardy
region is taking
additional measures
according to the new
corona rules of
the past few days.
Corona in Italy: Lombardy is planning night-time exit bans
Lombardy in
northern
Italy
is planning
night-time
exit
bans due to the drastically increasing
corona numbers *
, which should begin on Thursday.
According to media reports, citizens there should
only be allowed to leave their house
between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
for an important reason, such as going to work or illness.
The newspaper
Corriere della Sera
wrote that the region, which was already
badly affected
during the
first corona wave
, had
requested
such tightening of measures from the government in
Rome
.
Italy's health
minister Roberto Speranza announced
on Monday evening that he was basically in agreement with the "more restrictive measures" in the region.
He spoke about it with the
regional president Attilio Fontana
and the mayor of the metropolis of
Milan
,
Giuseppe Sala
.
The minister did not mention any specific points.
"We'll be working on it together for the next few hours," he wrote.
Rome
tightened
some
anti-Corona * measures
over the weekend
.
Prime Minister
Giuseppe Conte
stressed, however, that a national
lockdown
like in the spring should be avoided.
Some
regional politicians
criticized the government's approach as being too hesitant.
Corona in Italy: Virologist warns of "danger that the system will explode in the next few weeks"
According to the reports, in the economically strong
Lombardy
with around ten million inhabitants, part of the retail trade that does not sell food will also be closed on weekends.
The regional commissioner responsible for health
Giulio Gallera
warned, according to the news agency
Ansa,
on Tuesday on the radio of a renewed
overload of the hospitals
.
If the trend is not stopped, there could be around
4,000 Covid-19 patients
in the region's hospitals by the
end of October
.
There are currently around
1,100 people
.
The Milan virologist
Fabrizio Pregliasco
is also
sounding the
alarm.
“There are no single sources of infection, it happens everywhere.
The
contact
tracking system
is
still working
, but the
risk
is that the
system will
explode
in the next few weeks
,
”
Pregliasco
told
RTL
.
Corona in Italy: Government asks influencer couple for help
In order
to get a grip on the
new corona infections *
among young people, the Italian government has turned to the country's most famous
influencer couple
.
The rapper
Fedez
said
in a video published
on Monday in his
Instagram story
that Prime Minister
Conte
asked him and his wife
Chiara Ferragni
for help.
The call was very unexpected.
"Fedez":
Per aver pubblicato questo video su Instagram pic.twitter.com/MgIIB5zjmR
- Perché è in tendenza?
(@perchetendenza) October 19, 2020
In the video,
Fedez
launches
a call to his
11.1 million followers
to adhere
to the national
mask requirement
.
"Folks, we're in a very, very, very delicate situation," says the rapper.
The country could not
afford
a
lockdown
like in the spring.
“With one simple gesture, we could somehow avoid one of the worst scenarios,” he explains.
With a face
mask
in his hand,
Fedez
appeals
: “
Use the mask!
“His partner, fashion influencer and entrepreneur
Ferragni
, who is followed by
21.5 million
people on
, also addressed
her
followers
in an
Insta story
on Tuesday
and called for compliance with the
mask requirement
.
Many politicians praised the couple for their help on Tuesday.
(ph / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network
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