joining us with more from roane bloomberg's is alessandro. ndro: the milan area has requested a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. to stop the activity, to stop people mingling together and going out for a drink in the evening. this is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. we had almost around 10,000 cases per day daily, below the european average, but still higher than what we have seen just a few weeks ago. we are expecting new numbers for today any minute now. guy: when you look at the economic impact of all of this, the conversation comes back to a double-dip. i've talked to a number of economists today. do you think this is the direction of travel if we are to see tighter restrictions, even if we get the restrictions you are talking about and leaders are talking about? what kind of impact on the data is that likely to have? alessandro: that is exactly what the governments all over europe, and especially italy, which is already fragile economically, want to avoid at all costs. they cannot afford to cripple an already weak economy a

and the crisis has meant an unparalleled pressure on pepino and his apprentice, alessandro... ..as theisn't convinced the boost in their sales is reflected in the number of actual cyclists on the streets. are you hopeful that in the future, it will again be like it was when you were a boy? and there are many who hope pepino is right, that the surge in cycling is just a phase. claudio severgnini is slipping back into his old routine. he's been driving passengers around milan for more than two decades. that's incredible, so you have to cross the cycle lane to go into your taxi rank here? but the roads he knows like the back of his hand are being altered and he is worried about cars being pushed out. claudio is concerned these bike lanes through the heart of his city have appeared too fast without enough consideration for cars. no? chuckles. it's already caused a lot of conflict. transforming the roads, making room for cyclists, involves taking sections away from the drivers. and this side is also new? yes, that side is correct. the parking over side. on the pavement? oh, so now they park

infectious disease specialist alessandro perella says it's not just about the numbers. >> we have aner of positive people. positive. not an increase in number of patients. it's very different. >> reporter: what's different is the testing. earlier this year, only those showing covid-like symptoms were tested. now, everyone can do it. the majority of people who prove positive are asymptomatic, isolating until recovery. the number of people in intensive care now approximately a fifth of what it was before. >> day-day, italy is reporting record increases in the number of new coronavirus cases, but at the same time, italy is testing like never before at this hospital here in naples seven days a week, at least a thousand tests are conducted quickly and for free. five times as many tests are being conducted now than at the height of the first wave in march. a once-unwieldy process, now routine. how long was the wait? half an hour, says abramo. when will you receive the result, i ask? >> the whole family did it. tomorrow morning, we'll get a message with the results by phone, he says. there'