Name: COVID-19 has claimed 148 lives in Italy
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T23:32:06.000Z
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Jessica, Thank you so much for agreeing to speak to us.

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Just give us some idea of how people are feeling in Italy.

Your relatives, your neighbors, your friends.

How are they coping with all of this happening in Italy at the moment?

Well, anytime now is the second week that we had this Corona virus emergency spreading out.

And after the first week, that was we all really panicked and were sold at the supermarket.

And, you know, everybody was wondering how serious was actually the Corona I just now we all understood that the danger about it it's more the number off people being infected.

Well, we are listening and following instruction from the government.

And so we are trying to make the best of it.

We are staying home and trying to limiting as much as possible.

Francesca, Do you know anyone who has been infected?

So I read some interview on the newspaper of people talking about it, talking about being tested and everything.

And so they say that the doctors are doing a very very good job and they are taking good care of them and he's scary.

He's actually scaring me is not like a flu.

Actually, it's It's stronger than a flute, but I don't know anybody diet.

We understand schools and universities have been closed.

They will remain closed for some time now.

What's What's the day like in Italy at the moment?

And even in Milan, you know, we have to work people.

We're taking, You know that in Italy they gave us instruction about taking like two meters or one meter from the others.

We're sanitizing about their lives is going on.

The only people who doesn't act would you cannot go out are the people with over 65 years old darling more affected by these foreign ideals and so but three's a large community helping each other mostly in then in the areas there that have bean more affected and so people exciting each other people.

He's doing the shop for elders and a them and the government in Milan organized also our supplies off the Ross a pre for enders and the drugs also have bean delivered at home for people who is not okay, not go outside.

So it is a chance to implement, um, they help each other.

I mean, if you have some idea, Are there any particular cities and towns where there are more cases that are that that you know off?

Or is it just a general sort of rule now throughout Italy that these other things that need to be done now it's at the beginning?

It was only on the northern half of Italy, so But now we are spreading the rules all over data Since yesterday, the school were close on the whole, the whole heatedly.

So since yesterday, everything is a stopped everywhere.

So there are now sports activities for Children.

They didn't close that she's in the most.

One chair and we have to leave one chair free.

And in the restaurants there must be at least one meter from one table to the other.

So these are the rules that we're following trying to keep life as normal as possible in this situation.

And our, you know, our people mostly following the rules, then Francesca, Are you seeing a lot of them taking the precautions of the government has asked them to Yes.

It's called being very well with it have been anything many people was not so sure on how freaked and on how right was to have such a strict rules.

But now people are starting to understand waas the rendering why all these rules have been placed for and so people is coping very well.

I mean as a business person And I'm sure you know you understand tourism is going to be affected.

We'll be seeing what's happening now with the with the economies around the world where the virus has has managed to reach our Is there a lot of worry about the future of business and the economy at the moment.

Well, actually, we are already feeling stop off the tourism.

I'm in CNN and Senna is a really touristic city.

And in Sana, you can already feel how There are no people on the restaurants.

There are not people in the shops, non dick affairs on the roads.

One a very important part of our economy.

But now there is an emergency and we have to take kind of these emergency.

And then I am sure that Italian resilience will be able to get back as soon as possible.

That strength to you, Francesca and the rest of your countrymen.

Thank you so much for giving us an idea of just you know, what ordinary Italians are going through at the moment.