Lockdown declared by Italian authorities starting with 21 February 2020, which covered eleven municipalities of the province of Lodi in Lombardy, and affected around 50,000 people. The lockdown meant: ban of non-essential travel; limitation of free movement, except in cases of necessity; ban of public events; closure of commercial and retail businesses, except essential goods sellers and banks; suspension of teaching in schools and universities; under-surveillance quarantine of infected persons; shutdown of all non-essential businesses and industries (from 23 March). According to Wikipedia, the lockdown measures imposed by the Italian government, despite being widely approved by the public opinion, were also described as the largest suppression of constitutional rights in the history of the republic.