{"id":22938,"date":"2020-12-04T09:28:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22938"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:28:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:28:46","slug":"coronavirus-italy-bans-christmas-travel-between-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/12\/04\/coronavirus-italy-bans-christmas-travel-between-regions\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Italy bans Christmas travel between regions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italy is banning travel between its regions from 21 December to 6 January as part of strict coronavirus curbs over the Christmas holidays.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A curfew from 22:00 to 05:00 will also be in place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Restaurants can open in some regions until 18:00 but only takeaways are allowed in other parts of the country. Ski slopes must close until 7 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It comes as Italy announced its highest daily Covid death toll since the pandemic started, with 993 fatalities<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We cannot let down our guard,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told a news conference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“We must eliminate the risk of a third wave which could arrive in January – and not less serious than the first and the second,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There will be travel exceptions for work, medical reasons or emergencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On top of the regional travel bans, people will not be allowed to leave their home towns on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The new curbs have been criticised in a joint statement by regional authorities, who say they were not consulted by the central government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The lack of discussion has made it impossible to balance the curbs with the needs of families,” the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Attilio Fontana, governor of the northern Lombardy region, which has reported the most cases and deaths, called the new rules “crazy”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 58,000 people have lost their lives to Covid-19 in Italy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Before Thursday, the country’s previous record daily death toll was 969 on 27 March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy is banning travel between its regions from 21 December to 6 January as part of strict coronavirus curbs over the Christmas holidays. A curfew from 22:00 to 05:00 will also be in place. Restaurants can open in some regions until 18:00 but only takeaways are allowed in other parts of the country. Ski slopes must close until 7 January. It comes as Italy announced its highest daily Covid death toll since the pandemic started, with 993 fatalities “We cannot let down our guard,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22940,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22938\/revisions\/22940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}