Italy jumps on the Draconian bandwagon as new coronavirus cases place the nation into panic.
The Guardian reports[1]:
Italy’s health minister has proposed “sectioning” people who refuse hospital treatment for Covid-19 and has suspended flights from Bangladesh as the southern European country grapples with several new coronavirus outbreaks.[1]
We should point out that these ‘new cases’ of coronavirus have resulted in no deaths and amount to just 6 cases in total, yes thats right, 6 case.
The Guardian continues:
…a cluster of infections arose in the northern Veneto region, triggered by a man who developed coronavirus symptoms on the day he returned from a business trip to Serbia and initially resisted treatment in hospital.
The 64-year-old, from Vicenza, is now in a serious but stable condition in hospital. Five others tested positive….[1]
Italys health minister Roberto Speranza said:
“I am evaluating with my legal department the hypothesis of compulsory health treatment in cases where a person must be treated but [refuses] to be,”
He also went onto say that those who break isolation rules could be jailed. Under Italian law anyone who through what the state determines as negligence, spreads a virus is sentenced to up to 12 years in prison.
Sources:
[1] theguardian.com
