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Wednesday 11 March 2020
What's Happening: Italy under lockdown, officials infected

Associated Press congregation members
ROME (AP) — Italy spent videos of services.
the first day under a na- STOCKS STEADY AFTER
tionwide lockdown after PLUNGE
the government extended Global stock markets re-
restrictions on movement bounded and oil prices re-
in the north to the rest of covered some after a torrid
the country to contain the day on Monday. Markets
new coronavirus. As Ital- in Europe and Asia were
ians awoke to a new reality higher and stocks on Wall
and virus cases continued Street also surged. Mon-
to climb, Chinese President day's global selloff reflect-
Xi Jinping' made his first trip ed alarm over the potential
to the city where the glob- economic pain in the wake
al epidemic first emerged. of factory closures and strict
The contrast illustrated the controls on travel. Israel, for
global east-to-west spread example, has decided to
of the virus. quarantine all visitors to the
These are some of the lat- country, while Austria says it
est developments on Tues- will be barring entry to most
day: travelers from Italy.
ITALY BEGINS LIFE UNDER ITALY'S PATIENT NO. 1 GET-
NATIONWIDE LOCKDOWN TING BETTER
Italy's first day under a na- A member of the medical staff measures the temperature of a traveller at a autobahn park place Italian doctors celebrated
tionwide lockdown came near Gries am Brenner, Austrian province of Tyrol, at border crossing with Italy on Tuesday, March one small victory in their
10, 2020.
after a decree signed late Associated Press battle against the coro-
Monday by Premier Gi- navirus after a 38-year-old
useppe Conte ordered the ping made his first visit to A growing number of mili- Zingaretti, the governor of man was moved out of
nationwide restrictions on the coronavirus' epicenter tary and political leaders the Lazio region who is also intensive care for the first
movement. Panic buying of Wuhan — his first since are getting sick with the vi- head of the Democratic time since he tested posi-
erupted, prompting the the start of the outbreak rus. Poland's top army com- Party, is also recovering. tive Feb. 21. He is consid-
government to assure citi- — as parts of the nation mander, Gen. Jaroslaw Meanwhile, four Iranian ered to be the first Italian
zens that supermarkets will appeared to be returning Mika, was diagnosed after officials, including govern- to have contracted the
remain open and stocked. to normal. It was one of returning from a meeting ment members and a law- coronavirus — Patient No.
Conte's office said runs on several recent signs of the in Germany. Many other maker, are being treated. 1. But in the rest of northern
supermarkets went coun- diminishing threat the coro- officials are in self-isolation JEWS SCALE BACK PURIM Italy, the virus' spread was
ter to the intent of the new navirus presents in China as after potential exposure, FESTIVITIES growing so exponentially
decree, which aims to pre- the illness spreads west. In including President Donald The spread of the corona- that doctors were having
vent Italians from congre- mainland China, where the Trump's new chief of staff, virus is forcing the cancel- to decide who gets priority
gating. Soldiers and police outbreak emerged in De- the German interior minis- lation or a scaling back of in care and access to in-
enforced the travel ban cember, almost three quar- ter and the Norwegian de- celebrations for Purim, usu- tensive care unit beds. For
and Carabinieri teams pa- ters of the more than 80,000 fense minister. The Spanish ally a joyous holiday when most people, the new coro-
trolled cafes to make sure patients who contracted parliament's lower house Jews dress in colorful cos- navirus causes only mild
owners were keeping cus- the virus have recovered. canceled its activities for a tumes and hold parties. The or moderate symptoms,
tomers a meter (about Employees have been re- week after a far-right Vox Israeli government banned such as fever and cough,
three feet) apart. Mean- turning to work, but with party member tested posi- gatherings of more than and the vast majority of
while, neighbors Malta and new routines that include tive as cases in the country 5,000 people, which forced people recover. For some,
Italy slammed their borders workers wearing protective surged to 1,600. This follows the cancellation of Israel's especially older adults and
with Italy shut. face masks and not facing the French culture minister best-known Purim parade, people with existing health
CHINA'S PRESIDENT VISITS each other while eating. and several French law- in the city of Holon. In the problems, it can cause
VIRUS EPICENTER VIRUS INFECTING POLITICAL makers testing positive for United States and Israel, more severe illness, includ-
Chinese President Xi Jin- AND MILITARY LEADERS the virus. In Italy, Nicola some synagogues sent ing pneumonia. q
Mom, son safe after 52 hours trapped in

China hotel rubble

have died. Video released exposed to the new coro- been inside the hotel when
by rescuers showed the navirus, which for most it crumbled in mere sec-
two being pulled from the people causes only mild onds.
debris of the hotel that col- or moderate symptoms, Construction of the build-
lapsed on Saturday. such as fever and cough. ing began in 2013 and it
The woman and boy were For some, especially older was converted into an ex-
In this March 9, 2020 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, discovered late Monday adults and people with press hotel in 2018.
rescuers place a boy pulled from the rubbles of a collapsed hotel night and they were freed existing health problems, it Two supermarkets on the
on a stretcher in Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province. around midnight after can cause more severe ill- first floor were being re-
Associated Press three hours of painstaking ness, including pneumonia. modeled, and a pillar re-
Associated Press hours after being trapped in digging. The death toll in the col- portedly deformed a few
BEIJING (AP) — A 10-year- the collapse of a virus quar- The hotel in the city of lapse rose to 20 on Tuesday, minutes before the col-
old boy and his mother antine site in southeastern Quanzhou had been a with 10 people missing. lapse, Xinhua said Sunday,
have been rescued 52 China where 20 people quarantine site for people A total of 71 people had quoting a district official.q