Italy to reopen borders on June 3, scrap quarantine in bid to restart tourism | The Times of Israel
ROME Italy will reopen to tourists from early June and scrap a 14-day mandatory quarantine period, the government said Saturday, as it quickened the country s exit from the coronavirus lockdown.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte enforced an economically-crippling shutdown in early March to counter a global pandemic which official records show has killed over 31,500 people in the country.
The shutdown has effectively ended all holidaymaking in a country heavily dependent on the tourism industry.
I suspect the Italians are doing this not because they don’t know it will lead to an uptick, perhaps large, in cases, but because the costs of keeping their economy shut down are so enormous.