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WORLD NEWS Monday 26 october 2020
Italy closes gyms, shuts eateries early to fight COVID-19

By FRANCES D'EMILIO "These are difficult days,"
Associated Press Health Minister Roberto
ROME (AP) — Italy's leader Speranza said after Conte
imposed at least a month explained the aim of the
of new restrictions across latest limits. "The curve of
the country Sunday to fight contagion is growing in the
rising coronavirus infec- world. And in all Europe the
tions, shutting down gyms, wave is very high. We must
pools and movie theaters, react immediately and
putting an early curfew on with determination if we
cafes and restaurants and want to avoid unsustain-
mandating that people able numbers."
keep wearing masks out- Several Italian regions and
doors. cities recently slapped on
Worried about crippling Ita- overnight curfews to cut
ly's stagnant economy, es- down on young people
pecially after 10 weeks of a congregating outdoors, es-
severe lockdown earlier in pecially to drink. But Conte
the pandemic, Italian Pre- said given the approach-
mier Giuseppe Conte opt- ing cold weather, people
ed against another heavy would prefer to socialize in-
nationwide lockdown. The side at bars and restaurants
new decree goes into ef- instead, so that's why he or-
fect Monday and lasts until A pizza maker prepares a pizza in a restaurant in downtown Rome, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. dered them to close early.
Nov. 24. Associated Press. On Friday, demonstrators
"Our aim is to protect health the new measures, which restaurants can do de- those exercising outdoors in Naples protested a 11
and the economy," Conte orders them to close at 6 livery and takeout orders from wearing masks. p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew and
said. p.m. Most restaurants in Ita- until midnight. But before "We all have to do small clashed with police. On
A day earlier, Italy sur- ly usually don't even start to the curfew, no more than sacrifices," Conte said. "If Saturday night, far-right
passed a half million con- serve dinner before 8 p.m. four diners will be allowed we can't go to the gym, we and neo-fascist political
firmed coronavirus cases Cafes and restaurants were per restaurant table, un- can exercise outdoors." groups led a similar protest
since February, when it allowed in recent months less they are from the same Conte kept elementary in Rome against that city's
became the first country to re-open for outdoor din- family. and middle schools open curfew.
in Europe stricken by the ing or limited indoor seat- Under the new rules, ski but said 75% of high school "I'd feel anger, too, toward
pandemic. On Sunday, ing. But many are strug- slopes are off-limits to all students must have remote the government," he said,
Italy registered 21,273 new gling to pay their bills and but competitive skiers and classes. Crowding on pub- but noted that authorities
confirmed cases and 128 some have already failed all spectators are banned lic transit, especially since had determined that the
deaths since the day be- after tourists were banned from stadiums during pro- schools reopened last protests were also fueled
fore. Italy has reported a from the United States and fessional sports matches, month, has concerned by agitators.
total of 37,338 virus deaths, many other countries. including soccer. Recep- health authorities. Since early in the pan-
Europe's second-highest Conte promised financial tions after religious or civil By early summer, after Ita- demic, masks have been
pandemic death toll after aid from his center-left gov- ceremonies like weddings ly's lockdown was all but required on Italy's public
Britain. ernment as soon as No- are forbidden. The decree lifted, new virus caseloads transit and in indoor venues
Restaurant and bar owners vember to the food sector continues to exempt chil- had dropped as low as 200 like supermarkets and other
had lobbied hard against and noted that cafes and dren younger than six and a day. stores.q

Spain orders nationwide curfew to stem worsening outbreak

By JOSEPH WILSON effect Sunday night and apply to Spain's Canary Is-
Associated Press would likely remain in place lands, which were recently
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — for six months. removed from Britain's and
Buckling under the resur- "The reality is that Europe Germany's list of unsafe
gence of the coronavirus and Spain are immersed in travel destinations due to
in Europe, the Spanish gov- a second wave of the pan- the favorable trajectory of
ernment on Sunday de- demic," Sánchez said dur- the virus on the archipela-
clared a national state of ing a nationwide address go.
emergency that includes after meeting with his Cabi- With the mainland curfew,
an overnight curfew in net. "The situation we are Spain is following the exam-
hopes of not repeating the living in is extreme." ple of neighboring France,
near collapse of the coun- The leaders of Spain's 17 re- where the government or-
try's hospitals. gions and two autonomous dered a 9 p.m.-6 a.m. cur-
Prime Minister Pedro Sán- cities will have authority to few for major cities and
chez said the decision to modify the curfew in their large swaths of the country
restrict free movement on territory to start between this week. In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2020 file photo, workers of catering sectors
the streets of Spain be- 10:00-12:00 p.m. and end Health officials have been take part in a protest organized by restaurants and bar owners
tween 11 p.m.-6 a.m. allows between 5:00-7:00 a.m., targeting nightlife and par- in Barcelona, Spain.
exceptions for commuting close regional borders to tying as some of the main Associated Press.
to work, buying medicine, travel, and limit gatherings sources for the latest revival week to extend the state can last no longer than two
and caring for elderly and to six people who don't live of infections. of emergency until May. As weeks without the endorse-
young family members. together, the prime minister Sánchez said he will ask Par- dictated by the Constitu- ment of the Congress of
He said the curfew takes said. The curfew does not liament's lower house this tion, a state of emergency Deputies.q