Italy to extend lockdown measures over virus: Conte

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A general view shows closed market stalls in the Monteverde Vecchio district of Rome on March 18, 2020 during the country’s lockdown within the new coronavirus crisis. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP)

ROME, Italy (AFP) — Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Thursday that the week-long lockdown in Italy, the European country hit worst by the coronavirus pandemic, will be extended beyond the April 3 deadline.

“The measures we have taken… must be extended beyond their original deadline,” Conte told Thursday’s edition of the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

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