Measure comes as instances and hospitalisations rise in Italy, which just lately handed grim milestone of 100,000 deaths.
Italy shall be positioned beneath a nationwide lockdown for the Easter weekend, a draft legislation decree seen by Reuters mentioned on Friday, as the federal government battles to stem a recent surge in coronavirus instances and hospitalisations.
Non-essential outlets shall be shuttered nationwide from April 3 to April 5.
On these days, Italians will solely be allowed to go away their properties for work, well being or emergency causes.
The draft decree additionally mentioned that as of Monday, curbs shall be tightened within the nation’s low-risk “yellow” areas, the place motion between cities shall be severely restricted and eating places and bars shall be closed.
Together with nationwide measures, Italy calibrates restrictions in its 20 areas in accordance with a four-tier colour-coded system (white, yellow, orange and purple) primarily based on an infection ranges and revised each week.
In purple zones, eating places, bars and non-essential outlets are closed. By comparability, in white areas, eating places can open within the night.
The decree is predicted to be accredited afterward Friday.
Italy was the primary Western nation to implement a nationwide lockdown final yr, because the virus took maintain and the nation turned an epicentre of the pandemic.
This week, a grim milestone was reached as Italy recorded 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 – a “horrible threshold” mentioned new Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
The latest rise in instances in Italy comes amid international makes an attempt to vaccinate populations in opposition to the virus.
Well being Undersecretary Pierpaolo Sileri informed Italian media on Thursday that he hopes two-thirds of the inhabitants could have acquired a primary dose of a vaccine by the summer season, and a second dose by October.