The Italian government introduced restrictive measures Monday night across the country's entire population.
Businesswoman Angelica Krystle Donati said her family construction firm, Donati SPA, was fortunate to have not yet broken ground on two major new projects. But on Tuesday, workers had downed tools at its sites in and around Rome as well as in the city of L'Aquila, where her teams were contracted by government agencies to restore old buildings that had been severely damaged during a 2009 earthquake.
"I thought this is what it must have felt like when people found out that they were going to war. I was so scared," she said by phone, her voice catching in her throat. "It was the most gut-wrenching experience I've ever had in my life." People standing behind barriers after the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square and its main basilica were closed to tourists from today until April 3, as part of control measures against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus on March 10, 2020 in Vatican City, Italy.One Italian to retain a sense of humor about the national lockdown is Marta Galliani, a family law practitioner focused on divorce cases in Milan, where courts remain closed.
Galliani's partner Stefano Formentini, who designs costumes for commercial television shows and advertisers, said some small video-editing firms he knew had stayed open, and news and sports shows had stayed on air. But during soap operas and dramas broadcast on Italian television, he said a small subtitle had been added to scenes that showed characters kissing or acting in close physical contact: "This program was recorded before the 1st of March," reads the message.
The Trevi Fountain is closed for visitors in Rome, Italy on March 10, 2020, within the measures taken following the coronavirus outbreak.Italy's older demographic has been one reason for the virus' high mortality rate so far, according to medical experts, since older individuals tend to have weaker immune systems and appear to be more susceptible to the respiratory infections that are characteristic of COVID-19.
"When we need something," she said, "we leave something outside their house or vice versa." She says she does not mind staying at home, where she continues to work on the English translation of one of her earlier biographical works. "But it is quite surreal," she says of the empty streets outside, even in comparison to what she remembers of life in La Serenissima as a young child during World War II.
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