Four million people - an estimated 72 percent of them men - will return to their construction sites and factories as the economically and emotionally shattered country tries to get back to work.
A shop owner opens his bicycle shop in central Rome on April 27, 2020 during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus. Picture: Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP
Restaurants that have managed to survive Italy’s most disastrous crisis in generations will reopen for takeaway service. Weeks later Italy followed suit, becoming the first Western democracy to shut down virtually everything in the face of an illness that has now officially killed 28,884 — the most in Europe — and some fear thousands more.
The sudden measure frightened many — fearful of being locked in together with the gathering threat — into fleeing to less affected regions further south. And some of those who are out of a job already say they do not entirely trust in Conte’s ability to safely navigate the nation out of peril.” 37-year-old Davide Napoleoni told AFP.
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