“It is not the time to sing victory, but we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” he told reporters. However, there was also a significant fall in the number of tests carried out, and the head of Italy’s national health institute, Silvio Brusaferro, said it was too soon to say if the recent decline in daily deaths and new cases would continue. The first death was recorded on Monday in the southern region of Basilicata, meaning all Italy’s 20 regions have now registered fatalities. Sebastiano Musumeci, the regional president of Sicily, protested on Monday that many non-residents were arriving on the southern island on car ferries. “The national government must intervene because we Sicilians are not willing to be slaughtered like cattle,” he said.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 23, 2020 18:45 UTC