Italy spent the first day under a nationwide lockdown after the government extended restrictions on movement in the north to the rest of the country to contain the new coronavirus. As Italians awoke to a new reality and virus cases continued to climb, Chinese President Xi Jinping’ made his first trip to the city where the global epidemic first emerged. Italy’s first day under a nationwide lockdown came after a decree signed late Monday by Premier Giuseppe Conte ordered the nationwide restrictions on movement.
