Many Italian companies and academics are pressing the government to reopen factories to prevent an economic catastrophe. Italy faces a particularly pressing dilemma, not only because its lockdown has been in place longer than most nations and it had the world’s highest death toll, but because the novel coronavirus has hit hardest in the northern industrial heartlands that generate a third of its economic output.
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