The advisory, which went into effect Monday morning, covers the country's eight northernmost regions: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige/Sudtiro, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Liguria and Emilia-Romagna.
Major cities in those regions include Milan, Venice, Turin and Genoa. The advisory stops just short of the popular tourist destination of Tuscany.In addition to warning against travel, the advisory means that the government wants Canadians already in northern Italy to reconsider whether they should remain there.
Italy has been the hardest-hit country by the new coronavirus outside Asia. As of Monday morning, there had been 1,694 cases of COVID-19 reported, resulting in 34 deaths. Both of those numbers had doubled within the past four days., the government says that "widespread transmission is being reported in multiple regions" and "confirmed cases that are linked to Italy are being reported in other countries.
The U.S. had issued a similar travel advisory for Italy last Friday. Canada has been slower to urge its citizens to reconsider travel plans due to the coronavirus. Prior to Monday, Canada had only issued advisories for China and two cities in South Korea.RELATED IMAGES
Doesn’t Trudeau need to go to Italy to buy more votes for the UNSC seat Canadians don’t want? His vanity project. TrudeauNotFitForOffice TrudeauMustGo
But let’s keep flying those jets to and from Red China, money and all, you understand 🙄
But they are flying ppl in from China by the bus loads?
Wow...... thanks for catching up Canada!!! 🙄🙄 are you sure?!?! I mean.... we dont want to be xenophobic or anything..... feelings will be hurt!
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