SEE ALSO: Coronavirus takes toll on cost of inputs for companies"We are feeling a mix of joy and fear," 40-year-old Stefano Milano said in Rome. "But we are also apprehensive because they are old and my father-in-law has cancer so is high risk". Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte began by putting a quarter of the population in the northern industrial heartland on lockdown on March 8. The danger of the virus spreading with them and incapacitating the south's less developed health care system forced Conte to announce a nationwide lockdown on March 9. SEE ALSO: Coronavirus lingers in rooms and toilets but disinfectants kill it"Today is our moment of responsibility," Conte told the nation.

Source: Standard Digital May 04, 2020 05:15 UTC