Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that essential services like pharmacies and grocers will stay open.
Alberto Ragoni, a cook in Rome, works for a corporate restaurant group, so as business began dipping drastically in February—and now with the mandatory closure—he feels lucky that he can still count on a paycheck. But this is not the case for most of the country's restaurant workers.
Many restaurants have taken to social media to post updates about their businesses. Gino Sorbillo, of the famed Naples pizzeria, announced his restaurants' closures in an Instagram post on Wednesday, offering a message of hope for the industry: "You'll see that we will all return stronger and better than ever before."
One worker at a paninoteca in Lecce, a city in Puglia, told me that nobody really knows when businesses will be able to reopen.
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