{"id":16226,"date":"2020-03-22T15:36:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T06:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/22\/italian-pm-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-ww2-as-coronavirus-deaths-leap-by-almost-800"},"modified":"2020-03-22T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T06:36:08","slug":"italy-pm-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-ww2-as-coronavirus-deaths-leap-by-almost-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16226","title":{"rendered":"Italy: PM warns of worst crisis since WW2 as coronavirus deaths leap by almost 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Conte shuts down all non-essential factories and businesses as lockdowns spread across the world, including the US and India<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/21\/uk-military-planners-drafted-in-to-help-feed-vulnerable-in-covid-19-outbreak\">UK military drafted in to coordinate food supply for vulnerable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic late-night television address on Saturday, Giuseppe Conte, Italy\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/22\/italian-pm-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-ww2-as-coronavirus-deaths-leap-by-almost-800\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuseppe Conte shuts down all non-essential factories and businesses as lockdowns spread across the world, including the US and IndiaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageUK military drafted in to coordinate food supply for vulner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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":[41,50,1069,914,451,299,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-italy","category-science","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16228,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions\/16228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}