Coronavirus: Italians urged to respect safety rules

Fifteen million Italians are now subject to a very strict containment regime. Marzio Toniolo / via REUTERS

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The Italian newspapers return once again this Monday, March 9 in the morning on the health scale of the epidemic of coronavirus and the importance of respecting the rules to avoid its spread.

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Several newspapers such as La Stampa , the big daily newspaper in Turin take up this call launched by Walter Ricciardi, adviser to the Ministry of Health: " Italians stay at home!" He does not hide his anger at the thousands of Italians who went to the beach on Sunday. They certainly do not live in the confined areas of the north of the country, but the instructions are clear for all Italians: avoid the crowds.

In the Italian Huffington Post, the same professor does not hesitate to speak of a " state of war " in which the country has entered. On social media, the hashtag #Iorestoacasa ("I'm staying at home") has gone viral.

The respect of the rules

The watchword, stresses La Repubblica , is to respect the quarantine rules. The big center-left daily recalls the rules put in place by the Ministry of the Interior: more checks at stations or airports, but also fines for those who break these rules.

On news channels, the authorities have multiplied the messages: the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza reminded on Rai 3 that we were not playing with health rules in a crisis of this magnitude.

The press also reports on another side effect of this health crisis: tensions in prisons. Le Corriere della Sera recounts, for example, these mutinies in several prisons in the country, notably in Modena where the fear of what is going on outside has provoked great nervousness among the prisoners. " Fear, when you can't do anything, turns into anger and sometimes rage, " the newspaper writes.

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