this is d.w. news live from northern italy grinds to a standstill as a quarantine on 16000000 people takes effect prime minister ordered the lockdown to contain a rapidly expanding corona virus outbreak. poses travel and other restrictions and italy's wealthiest and most populous region also coming up in german song door time

to jump to 2nd place in the book after winning the battle of the. old faces and up haunting as they slip to fit. america evanston it's good to have you with us. the italian government has put about one quarter of its population under quarantine in a bid to stop a rapidly expanding outbreak of the coronavirus prime minister just as the qantas signed a decree after midnight the lockdown affects the region as of lombardy and other northern provinces and then clued venice and italy's financial capital of milan italy's the country with the most corona virus infections in europe the government's most recent figures show 5883 confirmed cases and

233 people have died of the disease the lock down is the most drastic measure yet taken in a european country to try to contain the outbreak. deserted train stations and empty roads northern italian cities now placed under quarantine wake up to the effects of the new decree overnight a very different scene news of the imminence lockdown set off a rush to beat the clock in milan and in other areas affected by the lockdown people race to train stations trying to get out before it's too late. but i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent decree putting part of why in the red zone and because i'd like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. lumber d. is italy's most populous region with 10000000 inhabitants its capital milan italy

is financial heart it attracts professionals and students from around the world and from all parts of italy this is where the coronavirus has hit the hardest leaving hospitals unable to cope with a growing number of cases italian authorities say the drastic measures to curb the outbreak could not wait any longer. and for the other northern regions that i have listed. there will be a ban for everybody to move in or out of these territories and also within the same territory. queen the exceptions will be allowed only for proven professional needs special cases and for health issues. as the regions affected prepare to implement the decree northern italians get ready to see their lifestyle change drastically at least for

a few weeks those who do not respect the measures could face jail tones and fines businesses are also growing more and more concerned among others the virus is already taking a toll on italy stores insecta easter one of the peak times is about a month away and reports are that as many as 90 percent of visitors have cancelled their trips. all right let's get the latest now from journalist sylvia part of the she joins us from the city of milan which means that she herself is now under lockdown hello to you sylvia so tell us what was it like waking up to the news that now you are quarantined. well it was quite weird to be honest and the feeling is a bit claustrophobic but we kind of expected it because last night there was there was a draft of the of

a decree that was leaked from the government so we knew disc was going to happen today now our most people in the effective areas supportive of the very strict measures. well the feeling is i'm evil and there are some people who actually support what the government is doing because they understand that this is the only way to contain the epidemic but there are also scared people of course. major stations of milan were assaulted by people that wanted to leave and to maybe get to their families that they're living away from from. so it's an ambivalent feeling. they give us a sense of how exactly daily life is going to change under these restrictions. well francis today sunday and the roads are quiet empty there are not people there are not that many people walking around and we will not be able to go to

restaurants at night to have drinks at night i won't be able to go to a movie today i won't be able to go to the theatre tonight it's it's a very weird feeling me and my friends are trying to understand if it's ok to you know meet up for dinner or not it's a weird feeling i would say. well what about things like food or other essential goods are authorities ensuring that to live rees will continue despite this lockdown. was or has not been ordinance yet but. they were saying today yesterday that they might close supermarkets at weekends. we can see what happened in the previous red zones. the supermarkets where of sold it at the beginning literally assaulted people would just go and grab whatever they could take and then the next few days they just calm

down they closed as supermarkets and then after a while they just reopen it and everything went back to normal i think this is exactly what's happening today this morning so there are many supermarkets. around my area have been. you know assaulted by people trying to get whatever they can but i think things will calm down and big supermarket chain will be able to get into the right zone and bring you know food supplies and. basic needs. journalists civil carty reporting from along which is now in lockdown we thank you so much for talking to us. for a broader picture from the italian capital we're joined now by correspondent philip willen who is in rome hello to you philip so why does italy have so many coronavirus cases compared with other countries in europe. they seem to be a number of reasons for this one is that i think that if they carried out more

extensive testing and was very scrupulous in announcing the results of the tests then the italian population is elderly it's the 2nd oldest in the world to japan and many of the fatalities or nearly all of them have being overly people with preexisting medical conditions and then of course it's a popular tourist destination server where a lot of people visit a promoter of the world and a lot of people there visiting christian or before this virus came to be known. well full of nice very strict quarantine measure is an ounce to over 90 center on northern italy which of course power is the country's entire economy so what is the government going to do to try to lessen the economic impacts of this corona virus outbreak. this is going to be

a major challenge for italy they're going to be all sorts of. damage to the economy tourism as we mentioned the industrial powerhouse in the country being at most severely affected and the government has announced a package of 7500000000 euros to support individuals and companies that are suffering economically hardship because of this crisis but of course opposition leaders say this is the day now they're put in and it's going to be much more needed and certainly italy will be looking for understanding from the european union that. it will be allowed to breach deficit rules to confront this really unprecedented very great it's an economic crisis. well we're also hearing that even the vatican has been affected with pope francis having to

resort to some unusual measure is can you tell us more about that. yes that's right the pope led to lists prayers today from the library. and his. leadership of the grass were transmitted to live streamed over internet and of course there's a bulletin on television because the vatican didn't want to encourage people to gather in large numbers in st peter's square as they normally do in fact the pope prayed for big teams the current virus and for those who are working hard to combat the crisis and joked about the fact that he was trapped within the vatican as a consequence although he did at the end of it briefly at his window seat only does you know to bring to the list

a group present in the square but certainly it is should you or i was going to your allusion eyes because of this crisis all right well up philip will in in rome we appreciate it very much thank you. a worldwide the number of new coronavirus cases has surged above 107000 here in germany health minister spahn says more public events should be canceled meanwhile in the united states a cruise ship hit by the virus has been redirected to oakland the number of cases in iran has risen to 6566 and the death toll there has reached 194 and the virus has now taken hold in latin america with costar rico confirming its 1st cases. all right let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news around the world in the chinese city of one joe at least

10 people have died in the collapse of a hotel used to quarantine coronavirus patients more than 20 are still missing authorities said that emergency services have rescued about half of the 70 people who were trapped inside the building. on the land border with turkey thousands of migrants have been trying to break through to the greek side migrants became stranded in the border area after turkey said it would no longer prevent them from leaving its territory and heading to the e.u. greek police have stopped them from entering the territory. demonstrators have been staging protests in attending events around the world to highlight gender issues thousands of women gathered in peru's capital to protest violence against women in the philippines women marching bands better pay and a higher minimum wage. all

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a quick reminder of our top story. italy has ordered one quarter of its population into lockdown in an attempt to contain its rapidly expanding outbreak of the corona virus the quarantine affects much of northern italy and includes the cities of milan and venice cinemas feeders and museums nationwide are closed. europe to date now on details the news i'll be back with another update from the top of the hour american at the scene thanks for watching. a mission to save the. marvel comics started in 1013 we created a vast empire of superheroes with human weaknesses. and their share of pleasures the moving story.