Italy: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 102,145

Italy: Covid-19 Coronavirus death toll is 102,145

Italy has toughened COVID-19 restrictions and imposed Easter lockdown.

WION shows that most of Italy, including its capital Rome and its financial center Milan, will have curbs on business and movement intensified from Monday as the government ramps up its efforts to stem a steady increase in coronavirus Covid-19 cases.

Italy is officially the Italian Republic. This is a country consisting of a continental part, delimited by the Alps, a peninsula and several islands surrounding it. Italy is located in Southern Europe. It is also considered part of Western Europe. A unitary parliamentary republic with Rome as its capital, Italy covers a total area of 301,340 km squared. Italy shares land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial enclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in Tunisian waters (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the 3rd-most populous member state of the European Union.

An Italic tribe known as the Latins formed the Roman Kingdom in the 8th century BC, which eventually became a republic with a government of the Senate and the People. The Roman Republic initially conquered and assimilated its neighbors on the Italian peninsula, eventually expanding and conquering parts of Europe, North Africa and Asia. By the first century BC, the Roman Empire emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean Basin and became a leading cultural, political and religious center, inaugurating the Pax Romana, a period of more than 200 years during which Italy's law, technology, economy, art, and literature certainly developed. Italy remained the homeland of the Romans and the metropole of the empire, whose legacy can also really be observed in the global distribution of culture, governments, Christianity and the Latin script.

Italy population is large. Italy has an estimated 60 million inhabitants.

These are the largest cities in Italy:

Rome

Milan

Naples

Turin

Palermo

Genoa

Bologna

Florence

Catania

Bari

Messina

Verona

Italy is subdivided into 20 regions (regioni, singular regione), of which 5 enjoy a special autonomous status, marked by an asterix *. Here are the regions:

Abruzzo

Basilicata

Calabria

Campania

Emilia-Romagna

Friuli-Venezia Giulia*

Latium (Lazio)

Liguria

Lombardia

Marche

Molise

Piemonte

Puglia (Apulia)

Sardegna (Sardinia)

Sicialia (Sicily)

Toscana (Tuscany)

Trentino-Alto Adige(Trentino-South Tyrol ) *

Umbria

Valle d'Aosta(Aosta Valley ) *

Veneto