Images of a waiting line in front of a Milan supermarket, the people of Lombardy are almost used to it. The economic capital of Italy was idling, it is now stopped.
Milan has been at the heart of the coronavirus epidemic that has affected Italy for almost three weeks. A little before the rest of the country, Lombardy was placed in containment
Schools and universities are closed, bars and restaurants finish serving at 6 p.m., people are called to stay at home unless they have to go to work. Result: the streets of this city of more than 1.3 million inhabitants are almost empty. People rely on the authorities.
“The time has come for us to respect what they have told us. I will buy a puzzle, not a big one because I hope this situation will end soon”, jokes a man.
“I am very worried and I hope that people really stay at home because we take this situation too lightly”, explains another.
Elsewhere in Italy, Rome and Naples, supermarkets have been taken over, especially for essential products such as pulp and toilet paper.
Covid-19 has already killed 641 people in more than 10,000 cases and continues to develop. The only good news comes from Codogno, the small town where everything started. For the first time, no new cases have been diagnosed there in the past 24 hours.
Italy is also increasingly cut off from the world, Austria requiring travelers from the peninsula to present a medical certificate, while Slovenia decided to close its border with this country, “bad decisions “, according to French President Emmanuel Macron.
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