Coronavirus digest: Rome imposes night curfew
23 October 2020 |
10:46 am
Italy's Lazio region, which includes the capital, Rome, has imposed a curfew from midnight to five in the morning. Spain became the first western European country to exceed 1 million infections. All the latest from DW.
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