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Italians on coronavirus lockdown in their houses have been singing together from their windows and balconies in cities across the country.

French President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed that he had spoken to U.S. President Donald J Trump and that members of the G7 will hold an emergency Leaders’ Summit via videoconference on Monday to discuss coronavirus.

Italian authorities warned that people showing signs of coronavirus and who refuse to self-quarantine could face murder charges if they fatally infect another person.

Italy has reacted with severity to the coronavirus which has so far killed over 1,000 in the nation, with lockdowns leaving streets empty.

The coronavirus outbreak that has led to the quarantine of all of Italy has had a side effect of stopping the activity of migrant transport NGOs in the Mediterranean.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s plan to combat the coronavirus in the United States does not include a single travel ban on any foreign country and revamps welfare-dependent legal immigration to the U.S. that President Trump’s administration has sought to end. 

The number of deaths in Italy by the COVID-19 coronavirus passed the 1,000-mark Thursday, jumping by 189 to a total of 1,016 despite drastic measures to contain the virus.

President Trump says a domestic travel ban within the United States is “a possibility” to fight the spread of the coronavirus from Wuhan, China. 

Italian actor and mixed martial arts trainer Luca Franzese was trapped in his house for more than 36 hours with the corpse of his sister, who had died of Coronavirus. “Italy has abandoned us,” said Franzese in a video, with his sister’s corpse visible in the background.

The Communist Party of Cuba confirmed its first three cases of Chinese coronavirus on Thursday, all Italian tourists from Lombardy, the nation’s most severely affected region.

President Trump has suspended all travel from mainland Europe. If this sounds excessive you clearly haven’t been paying attention.

The Italian government has required the public to fill out paperwork in order to leave their own homes, as the country remains under lockdown.

Doctors working in Italy’s overwhelmed hospitals say they have been forced to ration services for older, sicker patients in order to prioritize younger patients who are more likely to be saved from the coronavirus.

President Trump issued a travel ban on the continent of Europe for at least 30 days while House and Senate Democrats push to dismantle his authority to enact such life-saving immigration restrictions.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Robert Redfield says the “real threat” to the United States today, in terms of stopping the spread of the coronavirus, is travel from Europe. as no new travel bans have been announced by the White House. 

A startling 196 people have died in Italy due to the coronavirus in just the last 24 hours, which brings the nation’s death toll from 631 on Tuesday to 827 on Wednesday.

An Italian mayor has fallen under scrutiny for stating that patients who cannot be treated for the coronavirus “are left to die.” A doctor at a hospital in Italy’s northern region, however, has stated that “you probably don’t proceed” with patients “between 80 and 95” with serious breathing difficulties.

ROME — The number of people in Italy cured of COVID-19 passed the 1,000-mark on Tuesday evening as the country ended its first day of lockdown.

British Airways and Dublin-based Ryanair announced Tuesday they have cancelled all flights to and from Italy after the country declared a nationwide lockdown Monday in an attempt to control the spread of the coronavirus.

The prison riots in Italy have resulted in at least eight deaths, beatings of guards, prison escapes, and fires being set to the penitentiaries.

A doctor working at the Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in the northern Italian city of Bergamo has claimed the coronavirus situation is like that of a country at war.

Hundreds of flights from quarantined Italy, due to the rapid outbreak of the coronavirus which began in China, are continuing to the U.S.

Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Monday that he is expanding travel restrictions to encapsulate the entire country in an attempt to stop the coronavirus from continuing to proliferate throughout the nation and beyond.

While swarms of southern Italians attempt to escape the newly quarantined zones in Italy’s northern regions, a daughter’s message to her father has gone viral, according to a report by La Repubblica.

MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte says he is extending restrictions on travel from the north to entire country to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Travelers arriving from Italy and South Korea — two nations where the coronavirus has taken root — are not being screened in the U.S.

Three inmates died during a riot that broke out over the coronavirus at a prison in Modena, Italy, on Sunday afternoon. In Pavia, Italy, two prison guards were taken hostage and beaten during a separate revolt at another prison.

Data revealed on Sunday shows that Italy now has the highest number of Chinese coronavirus cases in the world outside of its origin country, a day after the Italian government placed an entire northern region on lockdown and deaths jumped 57 percent.

Italy has shut down the entire region of Lombardy and an additional 14 northern and central provinces, quarantining a quarter of the nation’s population, as the country faces the worst outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus in Europe.

Nicola Zingaretti, leader of Italy’s Democratic Party and governor of the nation’s Lazio region, has tested positive for the coronavirus. Zingaretti — who is the first leading politician in Italy to have come down with the virus — took to social media on Saturday to inform the public not to worry, assuring the Italian people that he is “fine.”

Forty-nine people have died in Italy due to the Coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the head of Italy’s Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, who has provided the latest data on the nation’s COVID-19 crisis.

A poll has revealed that a majority of Italians do not think the leftist coalition government headed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has done enough to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.

Nearly 300 million worldwide will miss school over the coming weeks as governments shut down schools in a bid to contain the Chinese coronavirus after health authorities urged an all-out offensive against the global epidemic.

All of Italy’s regions are now infected with the coronavirus, according to the head of Italy’s Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, who provided the latest data during a press conference on Thursday.

The Italian bishops’ conference has cancelled the celebration of weekday Masses in areas of the north of the country affected by the coronavirus outbreak, a move that has some Catholics up in arms.

A 71-year-old man infected with Chinese coronavirus escaped a hospital near Milan, Italy, and hailed a taxi as his getaway car on Monday. Italian authorities tracked down the taxi and apprehended the man.