People enjoy the good weather in a park in downtown Rome, Saturday, Mar. 7, 2020. Following the coronavirus outbreak Italy has asked people to maintain a one-meter (three-foot) distance from strangers in public, to refrain from unnecessary travel and to avoid gatherings. Schools are shut down through March 15 nationwide and remote working has been advocated. While museums, which had been closed in the north, reopened with the one-meter rule being enforced, cinemas and theate…
March 7, 2020
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Italy announces quarantine affecting quarter of population
BEIJING (AP) — Italy's prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country's population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe's outbreak.