All cinemas, theatres and museums have closed around 16 million people across the north and east of the country and now in quarantine as part of the strange and new measures being introduced to tackle the spread of the virus donors and covet 19 orbit, emergency travel is prohibited to and from the entire region of long body, which includes the financial capital off it's late Milan.

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The government has announced plans for emergency laws to help tackle the virus.

Among the measures are plans to allow people to leave their jobs and volunteered to care for those affected by Corona virus.

They're also proposals to allow court cases to be heard via video link.

The new laws will also consider the emergency registration off retired doctors and nurses.

His rich Johnston, the Italian authorities hand, has been forced by a steep rise in the number of infections in the country.

Officials say there are now more than 5000 confirmed cases, a jump of more than 1000 in 24 hours.

More than 230 people have died.

The new restrictions will hit its least financial center in Milan on the tourist hot spot Venice.

Most of the cases have bean in the region of long body, as well as 14 other provinces in the North and East.

Amore Fulton Dream of Jane's We're facing an emergency, a national emergency.

We have been applying precautionary measures from the beginning.

We are acting with the utmost determination.

It's a sense of Lombardi's home to 10 million people.

That's like locking down Tokyo or New York.

Jim's swimming pools, museums and ski resorts will be closed.

Restaurants and cafes can open, but customers need to sit at least a meter apart.

Religious events like funerals or weddings are banned on the pope's weekly Sunday.

Blessing will be delivered by video stream instead of addressing the thousands who usually gather in ST Peter's Square.

Movement within the so called red zones will be for urgent matters.

Only anyone who breaks the quarantine rules could be jailed.

For three months, one of Italy's leading politicians says he's tested positive for the virus and has been self isolating.

You have always said, Don't panic, Let's fight this And in this moment I will, of course, give a good example and follow the advice of the doctor's end of scientists.

I would try to lend a hand by working from home as much as possible, and I am fighting as it is right to do for each of us and for the country.

Officials say they'll start recruiting retired doctors to help deal with surgeon cases.

The new measures are due to last until the third of April.

Rich Preston, BBC News While our correspondents Bethany Bell is in Bologna on dhe, she gave me an update.

We got the first indications that this was happening yesterday evening on Dhe.

Then, eventually the decree was announced two o'clock in the morning local time by Italy's Prime minister Decepticon.

Take these measures, which is a partial lock down, a flexible, locked down, if you like off areas in northern Italy.

I'm here in Bologna, which is about 40 kilometers outside those zones, that the whole of Lombardy to the north.

Areas like Venice, Palmer, Modern ER have all been affected by these measures.

People have been told that they shouldn't move in and out unless there are very essential emergency reasons for them to do so.

Essential work reasons and the police will be able to have powers to stop people and asked them why they're moving in and out.

Trains and planes, though, are still running, although of course we did see those pictures of how quiet it's looking at Milan Central Station this morning.

But of course it is Sunday morning, and I think some people are certainly trying to see how they can get in and out people who don't live there.

Visitors, for example.

It's a bit curious, isn't it?

On the one hand, for the government to announce this disclosure fairly dramatic move.

It's decent of the measures in itself is quite interesting, isn't it?

You know, you go to a restaurant, we have to see a minimum of a meter apart.

I think a lot of rest.

Ritter's struggled to fill their restaurants and pay their bills if they don't pack a lot of people in, so that might cause and practical problems for them, but they have to be shut by six o'clock in the evening.

But we have the situation where apparently flights are still going in and out of Milan airport at the airports inland.

I mean, that seems very confusing flight.

I mean again, it's a partial lock down.

It's not the sort of situation we've seen in areas of China where there was a much more stringent thing.

But it is what it of these government called a national emergency.

Over the last week, the number of infections has continued to rise.

They said that last week would be a crucial week in turn, in determining the number of new infections.

We've seen the infection numbers rising and this decision has been taken by the government to try and stop that as much as possible.

But there are people here in Italy saying, Is this all coming too late?

Should these measures have been taken before now and what are we doing to our economy?

If you're shutting down even partially cities like the land which is Italy's financial capital?

Now, what you talking about?

The meter questions in cafes and restaurants that has been the advice for a while now.

Andi, you know, we've seen in recent days you know, people trying to establish that in restaurants, but in some places, it is simply very difficult for people to control that.

That's Bethany Bell talking to me from Bologna.