Officers ordered 250 individuals who attended the marriage to self-quarantine till they’re examined. As a result of about 30 of them have been native college students, colleges have been closed for 2 weeks. A 10 p.m. curfew was imposed on cafes, pubs and gaming halls, and gymnasiums and different sports activities services should shut two hours sooner than common. The city’s parks and museums closed indefinitely, and conferences have been postponed. Masks have been made necessary in all indoor or public areas.
The marriage company have been instructed to contact their medical doctors in addition to town’s virus emergency authorities till they could possibly be examined.
Mayor Nicolò Nicolosi instructed Corleone’s 11,000 residents in a video on Facebook on Friday that they need to attempt to reside their lives “as usually as attainable,” whereas performing responsibly. “Corleone will not be a pink zone,” he reassured them, utilizing the time period that Italian officers had given to the hardest-hit areas at first of the crisis in February.
Acknowledging that Corleone’s economic system was already struggling within the pandemic, Mr. Nicolosi mentioned he would attempt to restrict the closures as a lot as attainable whereas nonetheless “taking all the mandatory precautions to comprise the virus.”
The city, lower than 25 miles south of the Sicilian capital, Palermo, turned notorious because the hometown of a few of the most distinguished members of the Corleonesi clan, which within the 1980s ended up dominating the Mafia, or Cosa Nostra.
Corleone additionally gained notoriety by means of Mario Puzo’s “Godfather” books — whose protagonists have been from and named after the city — after which by means of the film trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola. The primary of the three, which gained the 1973 greatest image Oscar, began with a wedding in New York and later confirmed a second wedding set in Corleone.
Although Italy has fared higher than Spain and France in containing instances after a widespread rest of social distancing guidelines, officers have been involved by steadily growing numbers.
Reporting was contributed by Ian Austen, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Marie Fazio, Denise Grady, Jennifer Jett, Andrea Kannapell, Sheila Kaplan, Sharon LaFraniere, Adam Liptak, Choe Sang-Hun, Mitch Smith, Apoorva Mandavilli, Bryan Pietsch, Daniel Politi, Elisabetta Povoledo, Katherine J. Wu and Mihir Zaveri.
