Italy’s coronavirus lockdown extension inevitable – Supreme Health Council
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An extension of Italy’s coronavirus lockdown containment measures is inevitable, the Supreme Health Council (CSS) said Friday.
This is because, CSS head Franco Locatelli said, “we are not in a markedly declining phase but in a phase, albeit encouraging, of containment”.
He said “we must imagine several months, with careful action, to avert a pick-up in the epidemic’s curve”.
In the meantime, Italy’s coronavirus schools closure will be extended after April 3, Education Minister Lucia Azzolina said Friday. “The aim is to ensure that students can return to school when it is super-certain and super-safe to make sure they can go back, health is the priority,” she said.
Meanwhile flags will be flown at half-mast in cities across Italy at midday on March 31 to commemorate the victims of coronavirus, the president of municipalities’ association ANCI Antonio Decaro announced Friday on Twitter.
“On Tuesday, March 21, at 12 pm, flags at half-staff and a minute of silence to be observed by Italian mayors with the tricolor sash in front of their city hall”, Decaro tweeted.
“We join the president of the Province of Bergamo as a sign of mourning for the many victims of the epidemic”, he added, referring to Gianfranco Gafforelli who launched the initiative.
