Italy has sent fresh riot police reinforcements to a council estate in its south where a cluster of coronavirus cases among foreign farm workers has sparked tensions with locals.
Some 700 people were placed in lockdown this week in the complex of five blocks of flats in Mondragone - 60km north of Naples - for 15 days, the region's head Vincenzo De Luca said late yesterday.
Local health authorities said 43 positive cases had been identified and tests were being carried out on all the residents. Four of the high-rise blocks house undocumented Bulgarian workers while Italian squatters occupy the fifth, Mr De Luca said.