
The University of Buenos Aires also made a survey, in which most people agreed to the measures taken by the president. Image of Fernández increased during the first weeks of the lockdown according to some surveys, but later suffered a slightly decrease in April 2020 due to the prolongation of the lockdown. The announcement of the lockdown was generally well received, although there were concerns with its economic impact in the already delicate state of Argentina's economy, with analysts predicting at least 3% GDP decrease in 2020. On 29 March 2020, Fernández announced that the mandatory lockdown would be extended until 12 April 2020. Guidelines to relieve the situation for non-formal sector.Creation of a government department that works on the pandemic and economic issues, and.Exception of the lockdown to state, health, food production, drugs production and oil industry workers and security forces,.Penalties to those that cannot justify their transit on the streets according to the Penal Code,.Transit control on the streets by Naval Prefecture, National Gendarmerie and Federal Police,.Allowance of purchases of foods, medicines and first need products,.The move of Malvinas Day from 2 April to 31 March 2020,.The "preventive and mandatory social isolation" included the following measures: It was among the strictest measures in the region. It would take effect from 20 March 2020 until 31 March 2020. On 19 March 2020, President Alberto Fernández announced a mandatory lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Ī few countries and territories did not use the strategy, including Japan, Belarus, Sweden, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tanzania, two states in Brazil and certain United States states.Ĭountries and territories with lockdowns As of October 2021, the city of Melbourne, Australia, and certain cities in Peru and Chile spent the most cumulative days in lockdown over separate periods, although measures varied between these countries. The world's longest continuous lockdown lasting 234 days took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2020. On 24 March 2020, the entire 1.3 billion population of India was ordered to stay at home during its lockdown, making it the largest of the pandemic. īeginning with the first lockdown in China's Hubei province and nationwide in Italy in March, lockdowns continued to be implemented in many countries throughout 20. Schools, universities and colleges have closed either on a nationwide or local basis in 63 countries, affecting approximately 47 percent of the world's student population. In many cases, only essential businesses are allowed to remain open. Some include total movement control while others have enforced restrictions based on time. At the DHL warehouse, they say, they found it.Countries and territories around the world enforced lockdowns of varying stringency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the evidence remained flimsy, and the police were looking for a smoking gun. In the course of a single investigation, the antimafia police listened to a half-million wiretapped phone calls, tailed suspected gang members and bugged their meetings.

For years, many Italian law enforcement officials, media outlets and right-wing politicians had been describing the Maphite and similar groups as Italy’s 21st century equivalent of the Cosa Nostra.


These were copies of what would soon be called the “Green Bible,” the single most important document in the Italian government’s war against alleged criminal gangs of Nigerian immigrants that supposedly number in the thousands, including a group called the Maphite. The police were there at the behest of a 10-person forensic unit charged with catching human traffickers, but the booklets took on a broader significance. One of the covers was upside-down, but both featured a picture of a green beret and the words “Proudly Maphite.” In English at the foot of each page ran the words “Maphite Constitution: What we represent.” One officer, wearing blue latex gloves, placed the booklets on a sheet of white paper next to a ruler and photographed their pages. The printing was sloppy, the layout cheap. After the DHL manager retrieved it, the police opened it carefully and pulled out the contents: two small booklets, each 30 pages long. They were looking for a package that had just arrived from the city of Lagos in Nigeria. One morning in March 2018, three police officers working for Italy’s elite division of antimafia investigators entered a DHL warehouse in Rome.
