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ROME (Reuters) - Allies of new Prime Minister Mario Draghi criticised on Monday one of his government’s first moves - a decision to unexpectedly extend a shutdown of Italy’s ski resorts just hours before the slopes had been due to re-open.
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After a months-long closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italian ski operators were poised to re-start their ski lifts on Monday, only to see their hopes dashed on Sunday evening when the health ministry said it would maintain the lockdown.
Health experts said the decision was necessary because of the growing spread of the more contagious British variant of the virus. Tour operators and some of the biggest parties in Draghi’s new unity government complained that the announcement had come far too late.
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