Italy's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic shot past 1,000 on Thursda...
ROME - Italy’s death toll from the coronavirus epidemic shot past 1,000 on Thursday as the economic impact worsened, with much of the country at a standstill and the Milan bourse posting its largest ever one-day fall.
Most Italians were stoical in the face of the unprecedented disruption. “The government is doing its best, we’re in a war against an invisible enemy,” said Rome delicatessen shop owner Roberto Castroni. In an ever-escalating series of measures to halt the spread, Rome’s Catholic churches were ordered closed on Thursday — an unprecedented move in modern times that will apply to more than 900 parochial and historic churches in the Italian capital.
“The block on Italian goods vehicles to northern Europe is causing incalculable damage to our exports and to European trade,” business lobby Confindustria said in a statement. The interior ministry said police had booked some 2,162 people during the day for violating the order. Seven foreigners were arrested in Rome after being caught playing cards around a table in the open air, Ansa news agency said.
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