ROME (Reuters) - Italy banned travel within the country on Sunday in yet another attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as data showed a further 651 people had died from the disease, lifting the number of fatalities to 5,476.
A month after the first death from the highly infectious virus was registered in Italy, the government also issued an order freezing all business activity deemed non-essential in an effort to keep ever more people at home and off the streets.
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ROME (Reuters) - Italy banned travel within the country on Sunday in yet
another attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as data showed a
further 651 people had died from the disease, lifting the number of
fatalities to 5,476.
A month after the first death from the highly infectious virus was
registered in Italy, the government also issued an order freezing all
business activity deemed non-essential in an effort to keep ever more people at home and off the streets.