“Lock down,” says Italy adviser, as deaths head for wartime levels

ROME (Reuters) – An adviser to Italy’s health ministry has called for coronavirus restrictions to be drastically tightened to avoid a β€œnational tragedy” after the national statistics bureau ISTAT said deaths this year would be the highest since World War Two.

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