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kleinbl00  ·  1718 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski COVID-19 Round-Up #1

    BREAKING: Italy announces it will stop almost all commercial activity aside from supermarkets and pharmacies, ramping up national lockdown

    The new measures, announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, amount to an unprecedented commercial shutdown. They come in response to pressure from politicians in northern Italy, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, who had said more dramatic measures were needed to slow the virus’s spread.

    This story will be updated.

...well that lasted about 36 hours.