People walk close to a notice indicating that Rome's Musei Capitolini is closed. Millions of people were placed under forced quarantine in Italy as the government approved drastic measures in an attempt to halt the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak.ITALY - Italy's northern Lombardy region prepared Tuesday to impose a night-time curfew for three weeks. The most restrictive anti-coronavirus measure the country has seen since it emerged from a national lockdown in spring.
"It's an appropriate and symbolically important initiative that shouldn't have particularly serious economic consequences," Regional President Attilio Fontana said in the newspaper La Repubblica on Tuesday.Milan's mayor, Beppe Sala, said on Facebook that regional health authorities had warned that the 113 people currently in intensive care in Lombardy would rise to nearly 600 people by the end of the week, overwhelming the system, if new measures were not imposed.
Francesco Bini, head of the pulmonology department at Milan's Garbagnate Hospital, said Lombardy's density and business activity was exacerbating transmission of the virus. Some research has suggested the industrial region's more polluted air also plays a role in the virus' spread.
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