Italy towns quarantined as coronavirus cases rise
Lockdowns affect about 50,000 people, events cancelled as third person dies from virus in country.
A third person has died of the coronavirus in Italy. The number of cases is now more than 130 – the majority of them in the northern Lombardy region.
The Italian prime minister has announced a quarantine on several towns, affecting 50,000 people. And the last few days of the Venice Carnival have been cancelled.
Global News Insight’s Catherine Stancl has more.
Published On 23 Feb 2020
