Giuseppe Conte Announces New Covid-19 Safety Measures After National Surge

ROME, ITALY - OCTOBER 18: Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces new safety measures following a national surge of COVID-19 infections during a press conference at Palazzo Chigi on October 18, 2020 in Rome, Italy. Following this announcement local mayors will have the power to close public areas after 9pm with restaurant opening times and group sizes also being tightened. Bars and restaurants will have to close at midnight and after 6pm, only table service will be allowed, with maximum group sizes being six. Conferences and local festivals have been suspended and amateur contact sports will be stopped while gyms and swimming pools will have seven days to adapt to the new protocols. Starting times at schools will be later and more distance-learning will be encouraged, although these will mainly affect older pupils in high schools. Today Italy has registered 11705 new positive cases with 69 deaths. (Photo by Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis/Getty Images)