Two weeks of lockdown: Will the dawn of victory light Italy's darkest hour?
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Two weeks of lockdown: Will the dawn of victory light Italy's darkest hour?

"This is our darkest hour," said Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte two weeks ago when the country put Lombardy under lockdown to try to contain COVID-19, a large region in northern Italy that includes Milan and Bergamo.

One day later, the lockdown was extended to a national level, and on Thursday Conte announced that the lockdown would have to be extended beyond the current end-date of April 3 as Italy's daily death toll spiked.

Two weeks into the lockdown and with the number of cases increasing daily, it's important to review the country's strategy, as Italy becomes the hardest-hit country in Europe. 

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