“Here we go.”The incognito mission was just the latest tactic Italian mayors have employed to get unruly residents to obey lockdown measures as Italy became a centre of the global epidemic. But the mayors have played a serious role confronting Italy’s tragedy. The role of mayors “will be even more important,” said Antonio Decaro, the mayor of the southern Italian city of Bari and president of the national association of mayors. Mayors in beach towns have complained that the government has left them unprepared for the erasure of the summer tourist season. And mayors in the hardest-hit towns in Lombardy have vented that Rome has “abandoned” them and deprived them of test kits.

Source: bd News24 April 27, 2020 06:11 UTC