Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Health Minister Roberto Speranza signed a bill late on Tuesday extending the current rules until July 31st. The extension was approved by the Senate with 154 votes in favour and 129 against.

It obliges the government to "extend the preventive measures provided for by the Prime Minister's decree of June 11th, and to strengthen the monitoring of arrivals from non-Schengen countries," Italian media reports. The emergency phase "has not passed", Speranza said in an address to the Senate.