Italy coronavirus update: long supermarket queues as the country goes on lockdown

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Italy has extended its coronavirus lockdown measures to the entire country.

All public gatherings will be banned and movement is being restricted across all regions under the nationwide actions that will affect 60 million people.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said the new government decree will require all people to demonstrate a need to work, health conditions or other limited reasons to travel outside the areas where they live.

It comes after the number of people with the virus to have died in Italy, which has become the epicentre of the outbreak in Europe, on Monday increased by 97 to 463.

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