Italy: PM warns of worst crisis since WW2 as coronavirus deaths leap by almost 800
Giuseppe Conte shuts down all non-essential factories and businesses as lockdowns spread across the world, including the US and India
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Italy has shut all non-essential factories as the country takes increasingly drastic measures to halt the epidemic that claimed another 793 lives on Saturday to take the national death toll to 4,825.
In a dramatic late-night television address on Saturday, Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minister, warned the nation was facing its gravest crisis since the second world war and said all non-essential businesses must close until 3 April.