Michele Bertelli

Ital­ian mil­i­tary has locked down a nine-storey squat, where 18 peo­ple share one toi­let, af­ter res­i­dents test­ed pos­i­tive.

Some re­stric­tions, on tim­ber com­pa­nies and book­shops, have been lift­ed, but oth­ers re­main shut­tered.

Italy shut ports as a ‘safe­ty’ mea­sure but peo­ple flee­ing war and per­se­cu­tion con­tin­ue to ar­rive, up­set­ting some lo­cals.

A new de­cree aims to help stem coro­n­avirus in­fec­tion af­ter the death toll jumped by al­most 800 in one day.

Hos­pi­talised coro­n­avirus pa­tients can­not see their fam­i­lies and, as fu­ner­als are banned, fi­nal good­byes must wait.

As cas­es jump and deaths surge, the na­tion­al health sys­tem is strug­gling with a lack of space, re­sources and staff.

In a dras­tic at­tempt to curb the epi­dem­ic, Italy lim­its the move­ment of a quar­ter of its pop­u­la­tion un­til April 3.

Near­ly 6,000 test pos­i­tive for nov­el coro­n­avirus as the south­ern Eu­ro­pean na­tion strug­gles to con­tain out­break.

Anger mounts as Ital­ian com­pa­nies found il­le­gal­ly de­liv­er­ing waste to South­east Asia in move that risks lo­cals’ health.

En­act­ment of Salvi­ni’s anti-mi­grant de­cree could push vul­ner­a­ble asy­lum seek­ers onto streets of Italy.