Government holding urgent meeting following Coronavirus outbreak in Italy
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The Italian government is holding a high-level meeting to discuss what actions it intends to take in view of the sudden increase in cases of Coronavirus reported in the peninsula, particularly at the North.
50 cases have been confirmed so far in Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto regions. Italy became the European country with most cases reported and casualties.
Giuseppe Conte is heading the meeting for which Luigi Di Maio, Roberto Speranza and Paola De Micheli and the extraordinary commissioner and head of the Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli are in attendance.
ANSA reports that a whole series of technical and political evaluations are underway, even with the regions, it is a complex matter”. Sources of Palazzo Chigi explained to reporters the reasons for the long meeting at the Department of Civil Protection with Prime Minister Conte and several ministers. “There is a further analysis of the ministers present at the table, also with Minister Guerini, who is in constant contact from Lodi, for a whole series of assessments that must be made”, they added, saying then in the evening Prime Minister Conte should hold a press conference at the Department headquarters, as originally planned after the morning meeting.
My thoughts and condolences from the whole government go to the two victims and their families,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote on Facebook in the morning. “We are working tirelessly to react with maximum compactness to this emergency”. “Soon I will be back to the Civil Protection Operations Committee for an update on the Coronavirus emergency and to evaluate new extraordinary measures.”
Meanwhile Two new countries (Lebanon and Israel) reported cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, according to WHO.
