Corona in Italy | DW Documentary

DW ^ | 4/14/20 | Deutche Welle(DW)

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Venice, a city deserted. Filming while wearing protective masks, filming in a northern Italy that has been devastated by the coronavirus.

Markus Frings and Marco Polo, both from South Tyrol, needed special permission to travel through northern Italy. They wore masks and gloves to protect themselves from the virus. They filmed checkpoints and nighttime disinfection crews cleaning the streets. They talked to virologists, local business people and of course the residents themselves.

Cameraman Marco shows us how his family in Bolzano has come to terms with these exceptional times of closed schools and restricted movement. And we learn that many Italians appear to have adjusted to this most abnormal of new normalities

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An early report from a year and half ago from Italy, and the fear from covid was palipating.

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Someday people will look back at this time and wonder “what the hell were those people thinking? That’s insane!”

Remember early on when they were so afraid of the corona that cruise ships were not permitted to traverse the Panama Canal?

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A lot of what this report talks about (18 months ago)....is still normal day-to-day stuff in Wuhan. There must be 500 city employees who go out nightly to spray via trucks or personal sprayers...over the city limits...to convey ‘things-are-safe’.

[Albion Wilde]

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