The governor of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, announced that the Venice Carnival, in Italy, is suspended after confirming new cases and reporting two deaths.
Two days before planned, the renowned celebration is suspended along with other sporting and public events, said the Italian politician after ensuring that he signed, together with the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, the order that so provides.
"All public and private events are blocked, schools and museums are closed until March 1, including the Venice Carnival," the report states. italian newspaper The messenger.
Currently Italy is the European country with the most confirmed cases of infection, with 2 deaths and one recovered. Only in the Veneto region, whose capital is the city of Venice, there are 25 cases.
The Venice Carnival is one of the most famous in the world and is the time of year when the city of canals receives the most tourists of the entire year, with an average of 3 million people visiting.
The governor of Veneto announced the activation of a green number so that people who consider they have symptoms of the disease do not attend medical institutions in order to avoid contagion, but rather call the authorities to receive specialized care.
The coronavirus caused the death of a woman living in the Lombardy region, and of a 78-year-old man in the city of Padua, in the neighboring Veneto region, which shows that The situation has become complicated in the transalpine country in recent hours.
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