ITALY LOCKDOWN: find out what businesses will close and what will remain open

Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, signed a decree on the evening of Wednesday 11 March for the closure of shops, bars and restaurants from 12 March to 25 March (below the complete list). The movement of people will be limited to truly indispensable needs such as shopping and medicines. After the request from Lombardy, the government has therefore decided to tighten the provisions relating to the entire peninsula - which will remain the "protected area" - to contain the coronavirus epidemic (here the data updated to 11 March: 12,462 cases and 827 dead), which has now become, as specified by the World Health Organization, a pandemic.

What will close?

- retail commercial

- street markets

- bars, pubs, restaurants

- canteen services that do not guarantee the interpersonal distance of one meter

- company departments not indispensable for production

*Industries and factories will be able to continue to carry out their production activities on condition that they take adequate safety measures to avoid contagion. The regulation of work shifts, early holidays, closure of non-essential departments is encouraged.

Museums, cinemas, theaters, schools and universities are closed until April 3 - as per previous decree.

What are still open?

- public transportation

- commercial activities related to the sale of food and basic necessities: the baker, the dairy, the butcher - and in the medium and large-scale distribution, also within the shopping centers (which, however, must close all other activities, apart from these),

- pharmacies, parapharmacies

- newsagents

- tobacconists

*all must enforce the interpersonal safety distance of one meter

- home food delivery is allowed, in compliance with very precise sanitary rules.

- restaurants remain open in road and motorway service areas and in railway stations

- airports

- hospitals

- banks

- insurance

- gas stations

- plumbers, mechanics and craftsmen

- agricultural, livestock and agri-food processing sector.

- industries and factories: on condition that they protect workers with special safety protocols.

For more info:

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