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a deathly harsh has descended on the city with its world famous. everything is closed for the foreseeable future. the tourists have left and venice is residents are heeding the strict lockdown imposed on italy since march and. most of the time cameraman marco polo and i find ourselves completely alone in the city's maze of alleyway. normally the crowds here make it difficult to cross the rio bridge now i stand alone by the grand canal the city's main thoroughfare. we can tell from the packaging

that these are boxes of medicines that are being unloaded here the supply chain for the pharmacies appears to be working they are still open. the delivery workers letters film them but they don't want to be interviewed so we move on. the few others we come across give us a wide berth somehow in this difficult situation it doesn't seem appropriate to confront them with a camera and a microphone. what we're experiencing is extraordinary fascinating but a bit frightening at the same time. we've obtained special permits from the math and completed the self declaration forms required of all italians when they travel

otherwise we wouldn't be allowed to be here at all. luckily our encounter with the caribbean yet a passes off without incident we're filming it secretly with a cell phone. do a film permit yes we've got approval from the mass office. here the documents the press office has also been informed. and that's yourself declaration form. yes. ever. been you can carry on. with you that the king and.

close to the reality bridge is the city's fish market normally it's packed with vendors now there are just a few many fish mongers wonder how they're going to survive economically sales have collapsed. the few customers who do come here by 2 full 3 fish if that the fish sellers earn their money from the restaurants and hotels that buy in bulk but they are all closed my little bit that's about it i haven't experienced anything like it in the last 35 years that i've worked here that. we have never been hit so hard not by the floods or other catastrophes. an awful job but the leisure to weave a nation's are tough with a lot of it but we have never seen anything like this site just you look at it you just don't know how to react and how to stay healthy and sort.

of you thought the whole how did it take that many people have lost their jobs their home without work these are difficult times. we had for a bag in the region of lombardy 230 kilometers west of venice an epicenter of the corona virus in europe. we want to know why kovac 19 has infected and killed so many people in number. for us to it's hazardous to end to this quarantined area we decided not to take any. risks we have our disinfectant masks and gloves at the ready. at the time we filmed in mid to late march close to 10000 people had already been admitted for hospital treatment in the province of lombardy. by the 1st week of april the number of reported cases in the region would

reach nearly 55000. with its population of 120000 people the city of beggar mohar along with its outlying areas is long but is most important commercial center after milan our journey takes us to the historic center of bad a mouth which is perched on a hill called back outta here to most of the businesses and stores are closed. until. the aliza deserted as they were in venice there are just a few people standing a safe distance away from one another waiting patiently outside the pharmacy. in the piazza vecchia square at the heart of the old town we meet marcelo menow de who runs the cafe down tasa. cafe dates back to

$1476.00 and the any time that it has had to close for such a long periods was during war time but marcelo is an optimist he says now the main thing is to be there for one another and pulled together. we will open the cafe as soon as everything is over here and the entire family will do their bit including him. in that often step by step will begin again. i hope very much that everyone will be buoyed by this optimism including the government and. they've really. done everything possible and are doing a pretty good job prime minister conte and all the others it's an exceptional situation very very difficult you see all. that. much i know asks whether we've already had a coffee as everywhere is closed including the motorway service stations we plan to

accept his invitation. just off the answer vecchia is the terminal for the funny kill a runaway that runs between bag and baggage. the newspaper kiosk inside is open. the thing to do can i see the daily newspaper please here you are other many a bitch or it's. your home yes unfortunately we're living with a serious threat. and are you afraid. yes why there's so many deaths in bank in particular the logic of that there is no logical official explanation. perhaps it has to do with the fact the paradigm now is a hub for the region close to the alps and is connected to milan. and well and then

you add $1.00 and $2.00 together you end up caught in this vicious circle. all. of the no no look again or more pages. if you don't know it. well. we're. all taught. all that. you should. i don't think crazy. you could. probably but it's a battlefield. and the only. thing.

on the northeastern outskirts of baghdad lies the village of kaz nigga. there's a home for retiree's here we sent off to find out how the situation is developing in such cannot. deliver. from. the health and can system and lombardi one of italy's richest regions as well in international comparison and. is waiting in the courtyard we're not allowed to film the facility either inside or on the outside. the situation for residents and carers is very grave. i think. you still have some time here where this is like a war stay at home all of you and. no one should be out and about in particular the

elderly are at great risk there have been many many deaths but the figures are much higher than is generally known you still have a few days reprieve but i repeat stay at home. the situation here is very very serious. i don't want to spread panic but please get the old people into isolation avoid any contact because for them the situation is much worse than it seemed a few fini last year it's like being at war. he doesn't know where that. back in bag among the city hospital is out of bounds in front of the building there are huge additional oxygen tanks the hospitals own facility can no longer supply anywhere near enough oxygen to run the many ventilators needed for the coronavirus patients. so it does he said here so this is the proper sign giovanni

hospital named for pope john the 23rd pops your highness that i am one of the biggest hospitals and really the center of the corona infections you could almost say europe's coronavirus hotspot. you know. when also now to film in the hospital. we meet the director of the pediatric department to lauren's oh don t. got in the foyer. we conduct the interview outside like the rest of the staff dr don tiger has been working almost round the clock for weeks now and. many doctors and nurses have contracted the virus and are unable to walk patients in isolation wards are also separated from their loved ones really personally josina but at least it is for the devout it's an extremely difficult situation.

not being able to be with their loved ones in their final hours and not being able to have a funeral with a priest is a very painful experience that they're. caught up. with bad news about the virus hits old people the hardest the head pediatrician says that's why the situation in can homes is particularly precarious. see him on top of it a lot that is only one fortunately there are a lot of dead here and not just here in the hospital but also elsewhere that there are many elderly people living in their own homes in the villages around bearable or in the valleys in the outlying foothills with a lot of them are dying at the moment and we're convinced that they are dying from coronavirus. but because they're not being taken to the hospital there is no diagnosis. according to statistics in italy the vast majority of deaths

from covert 19 caring people over the age of 60 most of them had one all several preexisting conditions. one good piece of news about the virus says the doctor is that children are extremely unlikely to be severely affected. particle out of any. children or case in particular. they can get infected with the illness is a very serious. that's definitely good news for the families with small children. but you shouldn't forget one important aspect. the children who have been infected pass on the infection. if it's it's crucial to realise that. you can affect adults without showing any sign of symptoms yourself.

it's an almost 3 hour drive from bag a motor boat santa has all the hotels a shot we calm down. one advantage of the long down is that the roads are largely clear and we made good progress even around busy hubs like verona where there are usually kilometer long traffic jams. in bold santa the capital of the largely german speaking province of alberta our digital pick ups with loudspeakers are urging people to stay inside for health reasons. a lot is being done here to stop the spread of the virus. overnight the

roads pavements and bus stops are being cleaned and decontaminated with water and hydrogen peroxide. think feel a mention again i think it has some effect a lot of people walk on the streets a few spared their animals running around illnesses can get passed on like that. we believe that we have to reach 0 inflection point if we want to rule out the chance that the road the ground is a source of infection. to. the cleaning liquid is said to be harmless to the environment. we also asked whether this is really meant to just reassure the city's residents a symbolic act. non-effective now it's not just about the psychological

fact that let's be clear on this its citizens still have to stick to all the regulations and they shouldn't think that the streets are clean now and the problem of the virus is solved now what about so no way that. it just makes a small contribution there nothing more. than people you put for free that's it if you could have. next at home with a camera man marco to hear from the dr and number 3 that his 3 sons are not at acute risk from the virus is reassuring. the boys are working on exercises that their school has sent via email. some work can also be done on the computer together with mothers sylvia plath i think like for.

now. since the lockdown was imposed sylvia has spent most of her time at home with the boys as a software programmer she also has to work from home recently the italian government tightened up the long down banning walks outside anyone violating those rules faces a fine of 2000 euros and criminal charges. british . from time to time the polo family sit outside the house at the entrance to their small garden just for a change of scene. all. be he one how can i. get home i'm not scared and all but i would be if i were in the city well i hold my breath when people walk past and then breathe out when

they've passed by. i'm fed up with this virus i want to go back to kindergarden. of course every day without fail the family sit down together to watch the evening news on italian t.v. the statistics and. also paint a worrying picture. in the next 2 weeks the family will learn that the number infected has more than doubled with more than 4 times the number of deaths. the economic situation is also dramatic some 7600 businesses have been forced to close in the northern italian province. in deeper taina shortly before the brand a passed one company has been able to avoid having to put their employees on reduced hours or give them notice peter trying to founder and his team came up with

a new business idea overnight the 20 strong team is now constructing protective shields from plexiglas and metal. as these products are intended to protect people from the new coronavirus hygene is being taken very seriously at 1st it wasn't clear whether the product would sell. nearby and if they know we're not giving up we're making these protective panels and going from door to door with. many banks and stores of snatch them up. just as we've seen that many people need them for which production from one day to the next we've posted our product of social media and seen that there is a demand. response to that. in the meantime the production hole has been almost totally refitted with new machines

and materials. it's a mammoth task and a reality that meant. no reason for the course it's a big change. and we are really pushing the envelope. hartness have a good night but we are a great team. we are sticking to the rules we have protective suits and i hope that this crisis will be over at some point you can godling undefeated and if all the others out there stick together like we have. then they will also survive this crisis well they they set up a stair. there are enough orders to keep the company busy for the next few weeks and the jobs here are secure for the time being at least. that's what rick rick it was one 3rd luck but it would be one 3rd team effort and one 3rd the absolute will disturb i've. been so that's what motivated us and that's what made

the difference for 5 days ago the business was completely different a classic small blue collar for warts and all today we're talking about hygiene risk management. there's the plan that list what people have to do and when one has to provide food the other the supply of materials each is concentrating on their role it's nothing else it's on the speed they're counting on. the tourist resort of to doto patched about the spot town of meto know he's also deserted. right next to the villages care home is general practitioner wake inciters practice. first of all he provides

us with fresh face masks and stresses just how important protective measures are for people in the healthful can sectors who work with old people. when i arrive at the practice i try to put on an entire new set of clothes i change here when i get home i again change out of the clothes that i only wore for traveling between work and home i take off my shoes outside the door i try to keep to the highest standards of hygiene that's so cheap external contact down to a minimum for those at home and for my patients to come back the house and he she. don't to slight or takes us on a quick tour to show us the situation in a care home in toronto the safety measures are strict with additional restrictions of movement within the home itself. they have either have to all have a set or they have closed all the communal rooms and stopped all group activities

we have tried to isolate each floor so if we did have someone who test positive the other floors would be in quarantine and protected. and the source of them were now in the communal rooms it's empty time as i $35.00 all of it all residents are all on the floors above us. normally this is a happy place with people playing cards and eating coffee and cake or carers organizing again with. us this is unfortunately the sad reality that. the next day outside the main hospital in both zano here there are also special measures in place in the control tent in front of the building everyone entering the hospital is 1st tested for the corona virus. right by the side that is the region's italian white cross control center the relief organization has set up its own task force for the transport of people

infected with covert 90. top before we go to speak to the white cross and ask the volunteers how things are with the ambulance services the doctors told us to put on gloves. the head of the coronavirus task force in both santa is louder part of an. she has been employed by the white cross for 11 years she says she has never experienced a situation like this. unfortunately we have been picking up a lot of patients who although they can still walk and breathe on their own in the morning by evening we have to rush them to an intensive care unit. was. in the afternoon we get a message from

a doctor in bag and he says the situation has deteriorated over the last few days this time we decided to carry out our interview by skype to avoid any possibility of infection. like talk to don t. get or don't tell iran's or north works in a puppet giovanni hospital in baghdad it's just the way. i think the message that goes for us all for the whole of europe is all of us we doctors to need to keep our distance from our families. well. if everyone in europe does that then at some point this will be over. and then we'll have a lot of time again to spend together and to hug each other just like we did in the past. but for now we must stay at home in self isolation. because that's the only option we have to stop the spread of the virus in europe.

optimism and solidarity what's important now even if an end to the crises is not in sight. while the curve of new infections appears to be flattening out it's still unclear when the country will be able to return to normality. the stuff that when i 1st saw the photo in social media i thought it was a fake but it's true the water is a lot clearer than usual and you don't hear a sound either it's almost eerie now and then you hear

a child crying but nothing apart from that i'm believable. if something positive has come out of this crisis then it is the cleaner water in venice's canals. and who knows maybe the phoenicians will also miss the peace and quiet when all of this is over. 1 was 1. eco india. the world has a bit less plastic when tableware is edible. and afghan women refugees have

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