Abandoning cafes for long supermarket lines, Milan enters coronavirus lockdown.
Around 10 million people live in the area. Another 6 million in provinces throughout the country, including Venice, Parma and Modena were also placed under quarantine.Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte said Sunday that people will be restricted from entering areas designated as “red zones,” except for ''undeferrable work needs or emergency situations'' until at least early April.
The measures were put in place as more than 230 people have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, in Italy and a total of 5,883, people have been diagnosed with the respiratory illness. Close to half that number — 2,651 — hospitalized.At the Stazione Centrale railway station — one the city’s main transport hubs — life appeared much more normal. Trains were running as scheduled, even those traveling to other regions of Italy. No one appeared to be checking the passengers.
Marta Torres, 30, said she had arrived from Pavia, a small city around 25 miles south of Milan, also in the Lombardi region.In a nearby park, psychologist Chiara Dionigi, 37, blamed the government for “mismanaging” the emergency. After initial measures were put in place to contain the outbreak, she said that “authorities should have done more to make people observe the restrictions.”Her husband Alberto Righini, 45, agreed. Accusing the government of mixed messages, he said he could not understand why it had encouraged people to work from home, only for them to later to tell people it was fine to congregate in public.In Milan’s famous Duomo Square, the cafes were empty.
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