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Italy announces stricter measures to counter virus

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Italy has become the latest country to announce fresh curbs in response to its own snowballing second wave of Covid-19 contagion, after enduring Europe's first major outbreak earlier this year. "We cannot waste time," Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte said last night, flagging bans on amateur team sports and earlier closures for bars and restaurants.

He said that the new measures were intended to avoid harsher measures that could "seriously endanger" continental Europe's third-largest economy, already reeling from a two-month nationwide lockdown that was lifted in May.

Restaurants will have to display their maximum capacity, close at midnight at the latest and limit the number of people per table to six, while bars will have to close at 6pm

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