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  • Italy's government was expected Friday to announce the closure of schools, restaurants and shops across most of the country to counter what experts warned was a third wave of coronavirus. Prime Minister Mario Draghi's cabinet agreed new guidelines for restrictions in the eurozone's third-largest economy, which on Thursday recorded almost 26,000 new Covid-19 cases and 373 deaths. From Monday, every region with more than 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants would pass automatically into the highest risk "red zone", a spokesman for Draghi's office said. The latest official data is expected later Friday, but figures from the GIMBE think tank published Thursday for the week ending March 9 suggest the majority of regions will turn red. Draghi's office also confirmed that all of Italy would be in a red zone over Easter weekend, between April 3 and 5. Previously, the classification of red zones was designated based on a range of criteria, involving some political input. In these areas, schools, bars, restaurants, shops and museums must close, and residents are only permitted to leave home for work, health or other essential reasons. Media reports had suggested Italy's more populated northern regions such as Lombardy, which includes Milan, would be among those going into the red, as would Lazio, which includes Rome. The new restrictions, on top of the existing 10:00 pm to 5:00 am curfew in place across Italy, will last until Easter. More than 100,000 people with coronavirus have died in Italy since the pandemic swept over the country one year ago, sparking a months-long lockdown and triggering the worst recession since World War II. Cases are on the rise once again, fuelled by new, more contagious variants. GIMBE president Nino Cartabellotta on Thursday warned of an increase in the number of new cases for three consecutive weeks, which "confirms the start of the third wave" of Covid-19. He said that in more than half of Italy's 20 regions, "hospitals and above all intensive care units are already overloaded", with ordinary health services suspended. Italy began its coronavirus vaccination campaign in late December but as elsewhere in Europe, it has been dogged by delays in deliveries of the jabs. Concerns over reported side effects of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine prompted the health regulator on Thursday to suspend a batch of the jabs, even while it warned there was no evidence of a link with blood clots. ar/ams/jv
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  • Italy braces for widespread Covid closures
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