The Council of Ministers of Italy on urgent meeting adopted a decree With measures to combat the outbreak of the coronavirus in the Northern part of the country. "We will set checkpoints, if necessary, will involve armed forces," - said the Prime Minister. Answering a journalist's question about the sanctions that await napocensia ban, Conte recalled the criminal charges of " disobeying the orders of the authorities." "But I just did not apply it in the perspective of redemption. This is a security measure aimed as well as among them for the protection of the local residents, "- said Prime Minister, noting that the authorities rely on the trust of Residents who " agree to suffer the inconvenience for a couple of weeks." in addition, According to the Prime Minister, the head of the Ministry of youth and sports of Italy Vincenzo Spadafora announced its readiness to cancel all sporting events in the regions of Veneto and Lombardy on Sunday. As said in the current press conference, the head of service of civil defence of Italy, Angelo Borrelli, the total number of cases of infection with coronavirus in Italy increased to 79, of whom two died and one was discharged after recovery. Cases of infection were recorded in five regions of Italy, the greatest number infected 54 people in Lombardy. According to Borrelli, placed in the hospital, 51 people, 18 of them are in intensive care. The epicenters of the outbreak was the town of Codogno near Milan and city in the district of Padua. First ill in Lombardy was a 38-year-old man, who, As was considered before, got it from my friend returning from China. However, As emphasized in the Italian Ministry of health, the so-called "patient 0" has never had the virus, according to tests, is not in the body of the respective antibodies. at the end of December, Chinese authorities announced an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan, Hubei province. The causative agent was a new type of coronavirus, eleven Feb world health organization gave it the name Covid-19. the number of infected in China has exceeded 76 thousand people died 2345, recovered more than 20, 6 thousands of patients. To combat the spread of the virus, the Russian government had closed the border With China in the far East, limited crossing of the border With Mongolia, has canceled work visas For citizens of China, from Hubei province were taken there are citizens of Russia. Flights to China were suspended, Except for flights of "Aeroflot" in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. From 3 February the Railways stopped train and letter With China. <span style="color:darkgray