All of Italy located under coronavirus lockdown
Italy has extended its emergency coronavirus measures, which include travel restrictions and a ban on consumer gatherings, to the complete country.
On Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte ordered people to remain home and look for permission for essential travelling.
He said the methods were made to protect the most vulnerable. "There is absolutely no more time," he stated in a TV address.
Italy's coronavirus loss of life toll jumped from 366 to 463 on Mon. It's the worst-hit region after China.
The quantity of confirmed infection also increased by 24% from Sunday, official figures showed.
Circumstances of the virus have been confirmed in all 20 Italian regions.
What did Mr Conte say?
Mr Conte said the great thing was first for people to remain in the home. "We're having an essential growth in an infection... and of deaths," he said within an evening address.
"The complete of Italy will become a protected area," he added.
"We all must offer something up for the good of Italy. We have to do it now.
"That is why I decided to adopt even more strong and extreme measures to support the progress... and protect the fitness of all citizens."
In an previous interview with La Repubblica newspaper, Mr Conte said of the outbreak: "I have been thinking about the old speeches of [Winston] Churchill - it really is our darkest hour, but we will make it".
What exactly are the restrictions?
Mr Conte described the steps as "I stay home" - with persons forbidden to collect in public. "No more nightlife; we can not allow this anymore since they are events for contagion," he stated.
All sports - including football fits - are suspended nationwide. Academic institutions and universities will stay shut until 3 April.
The federal government said only people that have a valid work or family reason that cannot be postponed will be allowed to travel.
Passengers departing on flights must justify themselves, as might all those who arrive by plane.
There are controls at train stations to check on the temperatures of passengers. Cruise lines are as well forbidden to dock at several ports.
How have persons reacted?
Earlier on Mon, seven inmates died amid riots in prisons in the united states after authorities suspended most visits as part of attempts to control the pass on of the disease.
The trouble started out in the northern city of Modena at the Sant'Anna prison.
It really is thought that at least two of the dead shed their lives to medicine overdoses once they raided a prison medical center for the heroin alternative methadone.
At San Vittore prison in Milan, detainees place fire to a cell block, then climbed onto the roof structure through house windows and started waving banners, officials said.
At a prison in the southern town of Foggia, a large number of inmates broke out of the building during protests. Many had been quickly recaptured, Italy's Ansa news organization reported. Nine remain missing.
There were as well riots at other prisons in northern Italy and at facilities in Naples and Rome.
How about the rest of the world?
The amount of infections worldwide is currently more than 111,000, with about 3,890 deaths.
Everyone arriving found in Israel will be asked to self-quarantine for two weeks, Primary Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced.
Iran has reported 43 new deaths linked to the disease previously a day. At least 237 people have died and 7,161 have already been infected across the country since mid-February, although the real figures are believed to be far higher.
China, which includes recorded the highest amount of fatalities, reported just 40 new conditions of Covid-19, the cheapest since 20 January.
Although this means that that the spread there is slowing, senior officials warned against lessening vigilance.
