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Italy stops all non-essential business operations

22/03/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Weekend, Italy stops all non-essential business operations

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte assured Italians that supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and postal services would remain open.

Also in the programme: India begins life under national curfew; and Sao Paulo closes for 2 weeks.

Photo: Cemetery workers and funeral agency workers in protective masks transport a coffin of a person who died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), into a cemetery in Bergamo, Italy (CREDIT: REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo)

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