MAN IGNORES ITALY'S CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN TO PLAY 'POKEMON GO,' TELLS POLICE
'I HAVE TO HUNT THE POKEMON'
https://www.newsweek.com/pokemon-go-italy-lockdown-coronavirus-1493240
Police in Italy have been strictly enforcing the lockdown that has been in
place across the country since March 9, restricting people to their homes
unless they are getting food, medicines, going to work, or performing
essential services. However, one 31-year-old man, who was reportedly stopped
by the carabinieri on the streets of San Fermo, in the northern Como
province, believed that he had a good enough reason to be outdoors, when he
explained that he was playing "Pokemon Go."
The man had gone outside with his daughter to play the augmented reality
game. When officers asked him why he was flouting the restrictions, he said,
"I have to hunt the Pokemon," leggo.it reported.
The publication reported that police had no option but to charge him and he
joined the more than 43,000 people across the country who have been
sanctioned for breaking the lockdown restrictions. According to the Interior
Ministry, between March 11 and 17, more than one million people have been
checked.
In Venice and Torre Annunziata in Campania, police charged priests who were
carrying out funerals, which are banned under the government decree, The
Guardian reported.
Meanwhile, in Sciacca, Sicily, one man who had tested positive for
coronavirus, ignored orders to self-isolate at home and was stopped by police
out shopping. He was charged with "aiding the epidemic" which could result in
a jail sentence, the paper reported.
On Wednesday, there were 475 more coronavirus deaths in Italy, in its biggest
daily jump. There are now 35,713 cases, according to the country's Civil
Protection Agency.
In light of the grim statistics in Europe's hardest hit country, prime
minister Giuseppe Conte has said that the lockdown is likely to be extended
beyond April 3.
He told the newspaper Corriere della Sera on Thursday that "the blockade will
go on," adding that "the measures taken, both the closure of (public)
activities and the ones concerning schools, can only be extended."
The epicenter of the Italian outbreak is in Lombardy, whose governor Attilio
Fontana has warned that medical resources were being stretched to breaking
point, and that "we will soon be unable to give a response to those who fall
ill."
"Stay at home. If you don't understand that we'll have to be more
aggressive," he said, according to CNBC.
Giorgio Palù, a professor of virology and microbiology of the University of
Padova, said he had expected to see an improvement after a week of the
lockdown and told CNN, "Yesterday we expected to have a change after almost
10 days of this new measure... but it's still rising. So I don't think we can
make a prediction today."
The graph below from Statista shows the global cases of COVID-19 as of March
19.
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簡單來說,義大利因為武漢肺炎的關係進入封鎖狀態。
但有規定在需要食物或飲水等必要情況下外出是可以的。
但有一位31歲男子在街上被卡賓槍騎兵 (義大利的憲兵) 攔下問他為何外出,他回應對方
:「I have to hunt the Pokemon.」(我必須去抓寶可夢。)
警方判定這不算必要情況,所以他被捕了。