{"id":15727,"date":"2020-03-12T20:32:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/italy-faces-calls-to-close-everything-to-tackle-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-03-12T20:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:32:32","slug":"italys-government-orders-all-shops-bars-and-restaurants-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=15727","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s government orders all shops, bars and restaurants to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in virus-hit country take extreme measures as Covid-19 takes hold in Europe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/mar\/11\/coronavirus-update-live-news-uk-health-minister-italy-lockdown-australia-us-china-stock-markets-outbreak-latest-updates\">Coronavirus latest &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Italy\u2019s government has ordered all shops, bars and restaurants across the country to close after the country\u2019s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 31% in the space of 24 hours to a total of 827.<\/p>\n<p>As governments across Europe cancelled events, shut schools and imposed travel bans and the World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/who-declares-coronavirus-pandemic\">formally declared a pandemic<\/a>, the Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, said all stores would close nationwide bar those selling \u201cbasic necessities\u201d, such as pharmacies and supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/11\/italy-faces-calls-to-close-everything-to-tackle-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in virus-hit country take extreme measures as Covid-19 takes hold in EuropeCoronavirus latest &#8211; live updatesItaly\u2019s government has ordered all shops, bars and restaurants across the country to close after the country\u2019s death toll from the c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1069,530,533,914,448,451,299,1017,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-european-union","category-germany","category-infectious-diseases","category-iran","category-italy","category-science","category-turkey","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions\/15728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}