Mounted police officers patrol Via del Corso main shopping street, in downtown Rome, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Italy went into lockdown on Easter weekend in its effort to battle then Covid-19 pandemic. ROME: Italy entered a three-day nationwide coronavirus lockdown Saturday to deter Easter travel and get-togethers even as the country's variant-fueled spike in new infections began to wane.
The Interior Ministry also ordered up extra foot police patrols to break up large gatherings in squares and parks, which over Easter are usually packed with picnic-goers. But because Italian hospitals in most regions are still well over their COVID-19 capacity in both intensive care units and other wards, the ministry concluded that new infections were still “too high ... to allow any reduction in current restrictive measures.”
More than three months into Italy’s nationwide vaccination campaign, Lombardy this week opened a new centralised appointment portal after its previous system sent some elderly people hundreds of kilometers from home to get a jab and left others unable to get an appointment.
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