Companies that benefited from wage subsidies in Italy 2020, by region

Between March and June 2020, about 54 percent of Italian companies benefited from wage subsidies. The largest percentage of companies was recorded in the Southern region of Campania, where 61 percent of the enterprises obtained wage subsidies. Wage subsidies are paid in Italy to workers whose working activity has been suspended or reduced. The subsidies are paid by the Italian entities of social security.
As a consequence of the rising number of cases, in March the Italian government announced that the country is in lockdown and many non-essential activities had to shut down their operations. Currently, there is no strict national lockdown in the country and measures to limit mobility and large social gatherings are region or province based.