The army was sent Thursday to secure and lock a "red zone" near Naples (southern Italy), where a fifty foreign residents contaminated with the novel coronavirus have sought to flee their forcible confinement, reported the Italian media.

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Nearly 700 people, most of them Bulgarian nationals, living in Mondragone (60 km north of Naples, Campania region) received Monday the order to shelter in their place of residence, low-income HOUSING from the municipality after suspicions of contamination, explained the website of the RAI.