Posted on 05/04/2020 6:07:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Italy, one of the European countries hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic, allowed millions of people to return to work on Monday, as it joins several nations tentatively lifting lockdown measures as infections and deaths appear to decline.
More than 4 million Italians were allowed to return to work after a lockdown of about two months. Construction and manufacturing were allowed to resume, as was traffic in downtown Rome and street vendors, The Associated Press reported.
“It’s something that brings happiness and joy, and people have been missing that these days,” vendor Stefano Fulvi told the AP. Fulvi added that he, like others in his line of work, had to make a decision on whether returning to work was worth any residual risk as well as what is likely to be reduced demand. While Fulvi said he doubted he would make as much returning to the job, he said, “you have to take the risk at some point.”
Italy has also allowed mourners to resume attending funerals, with attendance limited to 15. The country has not yet announced when Masses will be allowed to resume. Dine-in restaurant service also has yet to resume, although restaurants deep-cleaned their premises for take-out service, according to the AP.
Some students and workers, meanwhile, are preparing to return to the country's southern regions after being trapped in the hart-hit north during the lockdown. Some regional governors in the south have said anyone returning home from the north will be required to quarantine for two weeks.
In a message to citizens, Premier Giuseppe Conte described the next steps as “a new page that we must write together, with trust and responsibility.”
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How nice god bless Italy.
They need a break. They be been closed down two months longer then we have been and it feels like a year to me and it’s only been about 33 days for us in Florida. I can’t imagine how awful it was in Italy.
It will be 8 weeks for us in Pennsylvania on 5/16. Our county is going to be one of the last to open up thanks to New York.
I’m quite optimistic. But people are going to watch Italy and Georgia and other places. You know some folks are hoping that they open up and immediately implode into a disaster area. Praying here that they don’t.
does that include both slaves and masters from china?
Here’s my question. From Naples to Sicily the Mezzogiorno suffered very little compared to the north. A n.v d much of that was from escapees from Milan. In the US Cal, Tx, Fl have suffered very little in comparison to NY NJ. Why ? Has CDC looked into this? Is there more than one strain ? Was it the weather ? Italy’s experience must be studied.
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