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Added on the 21/12/2020 13:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Rome (Italy), Dec 24 (EFE), (Camera: Antonello Nusca).- The Christmas lockdown imposed by Italian authorities started on Thursday in Italy. FOOTAGE OF POLICE CHECKS IN ROME.
In what Italy's prime minister said was 'not an easy decision,' PM Giuseppe Conte has put the country on lockdown for the holidays. Business Insider reports Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters that experts fear there will be a jump in COVID-19 cases over Christmas. Italy wasn't the only European country to tighten restrictions over the holidays — the UK and Germany have both announced heightened coronavirus restrictions. Johns Hopkins University data reports that as of Saturday, Italy had recorded over 1.9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began. Thus far, nearly 68,000 deaths from COVID-19 have been reported in Italy.
A Christmas market in Vienna opens as a partial confinement, in place since last month due to soaring Covid cases, comes to an end. However, only the vaccinated will be able to regain their freedoms, those who have not received the required doses will have to remain at home. IMAGES
A Viennese Christmas market is quiet and closed on Monday morning as Austria returns to lockdown. The country is shutting shops, restaurants and festive markets in the most dramatic Covid-19 restriction seen in Western Europe for months. IMAGES
Rome, Oct 15 (EFE) .- Italy has begun Friday to apply the use of mandatory health passes to enter the workplace, which consists of either proof of vaccination or a negative test, something that some companies have accepted while others have announced strikes and protests. (Camera: ALVARO PADILLA) SHOT LIST: PEOPLE SHOWING THEIR HEALTH PASSES IN ROME, ITALY.