Italy’s Autumn lockdown won’t be needed: Conte

Bloomberg

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte said that coronavirus outbreaks this autumn may prompt local restrictions but not a nationwide lockdown.
“I am confident,” Conte said at an event organised by Il Fatto Quotidiano newspaper. “We won’t find ourselves in a situation to order a general lockdown; at worst we’ll have to intervene in a targeted way, with restrictive measures for narrowly defined areas.”
Italy reported 1,695 new cases on Saturday, close to the four-month high recorded.
While numbers have been inching up all week amid record testing, they’re well below the daily peak of 6,557 infections on March 21 and the number of new cases recorded by other European countries such as France and Spain in
recent days.
Conte said he doesn’t want to allow fans in soccer stadiums for the Serie A season starting later this month.