The motorway A4 is seen empty, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, near Milan, Italy March 22, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
ROME (Reuters) - Italy banned travel within the country on Sunday in yet another attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as data showed a further 651 people had died from the disease, lifting the number of fatalities to 5,476.
A month after the first death from the highly infectious virus was registered in Italy, the government also issued an order freezing all business activity deemed non-essential in an effort to keep ever more people at home and off the streets.
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