Published 21:07 IST, April 21st 2020

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte to unveil reopening plan of country by end of this week

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on April 21 announced that he would reveal the reopening plan for the country by the end of the weekend.

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on April 21 anunced that he would reveal reopening plan for country by end of weekend. Conte said that steps to ease restrictions will be anunced in order to avoid furr dam to ecomy. Italy is worst affected country in Europe, reporting highest number of deaths in region. lockdown in Italy was imposed on March 9 and was extended twice in period. lockdown in Italy is scheduled to end on May 3. 

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Coronavirus cases in Italy are decreasing and on April 20, nation reported a decline in numbers for first time. plan to grually reopen ecomy is most likely to be applied from May 4, Conte said. prime minister said that he would have anunced reopening of everything but ded that it would only hamper containment efforts that have been taken so far to control epidemic in country. 

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According to data by Wordometer, Italy has recorded 1,81,228 confirmed cases so far, of which 24,114 people have lost ir lives. re are currently 1,08,237 active infections in country as of April 21 with 2, 573 patients under critical condition. Italy has successfully treated 48,877 COVID-19 positive patients to date. 

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Coronavirus outbreak

coronavirus outbreak has infected over 2.50 million people globally and has killed nearly 1,72,000 patients since it first broke out in December 2019. virus is believed to have originated from a seafood market in Chinese city of Wuhan, initial epicentre of disease, where animals were reportedly being tred illegally. Or countries that are currently worst affected are United States, Spain, France, Iran, and United Kingdom, where death tolls have reached five-digit number. 

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21:07 IST, April 21st 2020