Almost 50 people in Sicily faced stiff fines Tuesday for disobeying Italian rules and holding a funeral in the middle of the novel coronavirus outbreak, media reports said. The sombre procession was moving through the streets of Porto Empedocle on the island's southwestern coast when the carabinieri police were alerted by a passerby, the AGI news agency said. The 48 mourners will face prosecution in Agrigento, a small city near by, where each one can be fined 206 euros ($234) and even jailed for up to three months. Italy on Tuesday unveiled unprecedented social containment measures aimed at halting the spread of a disease that has killed 463 people and infected more than 9,000 in just over three weeks. These include a ban on public gathering. The funeral ban falls under rules that also cover weddings. Sicily has so far registered only 54 infections and no deaths. ljm-zak/cdw