the moment, italy's pride minister, giuseppe conte, and he is announcing some much awaited new lockdown instructions —— it's prime minister. italy will be placed under a nationwide lockdown for much of christmas and the new year, during the holiday. under the new rules, nonessential shops will be shuttered between december... 0n those days, italians can only travel to work, for health or emergency reasons, so in european country announcing new lockdown measures as we head over the festive period —— another european country. france meanwhile has become the third european country to have surpassed 60,000 deaths from the coronavirus, after the uk and the worst affected country, italy. earlier, french president emmanuel macron posted a clip on twitter after he tested positive for coronvarius. here's some of it.