Italy has eased out of its strict coronavirus lockdown and has returned to a semblance of normality without -- so far -- a major, secondary flare-up.
With tourists still absent and office workers continuing to toil from home more than two months after Italy’s strict coronavirus lockdown ended, few were out and about on Rome’s central Via del Corso last week.“Masks keep on selling,” said manager FedericaAmong the places where face coverings are widely on display is the Circus Maximus, where socially distanced spectators — including women in gowns with matching masks — are back watching open-air performances of Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto.
“When it came to lockdown and masks, we’ve been a lot less rebellious than you might think,” said Faragali.The largely conscientious approach toward wearing masks and carefully sticking to rules on distancing and hygiene came as Italians took to heart the grim death toll that resulted when the coronavirus hit hard in late February.
Fatalities in Italy have reached more than 35,000 — compared with more than 160,000 in the United States.Since a 10-week lockdown ended in May, masks have been required in shops and all enclosed public spaces, with frequent temperature checks and hand sanitizer dispensers at entrances. Groups are banned in public when three-foot distancing cannot be guaranteed.
One reason Italians got in line was because they have a high regard for health and hygiene, said Walter Ricciardi, a virus expert and advisor to the nation’s health minister.“Don’t forget the ancient Roman tradition for public baths and aqueducts,” he said. And “no one thought Italians would obey the smoking ban in public places in 2005 and they did.
On the long-running daily soap opera “Un Posto al Sole,” producers have decided not to refer to the virus in plot lines in the belief that viewers have had enough of it in real life. “Be careful,” he told young Italians during a Senate address on Thursday. “You are the principal carrier of contagion now.Advertisement
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