'We should have done this two weeks ago': Rome 'ghostly quiet' after lockdown
Slightly further on, members of the La Guardia di Finanza stopped each passenger to ask where they'd flown from. I responded Munich and wasn't given a temperature check.
He's wearing a mask and gloves and apologises when he asks me to sit in the back seat of his taxi van to maximise the space between us. Few here now appear to be taking any chances. "How many families can survive without money? Without earning? How long with this last for? I can last a month and after...""After, what do I do? I'll have no money. No work," he says."There's only one solution.
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