tourists stay away in droves st mark's square is almost deserted gondolas stand empty the famous then is carbo was cooked tailed but the outbreak is no longer confined to northern italy. the church of st louis of the french in rome was shut down after a priest who practiced mass here later tested positive for the corona virus the tourists who are here are stoic about the risks we flew into milan so we felt like we had to get out there pretty quick to rome which was a part of our original plan but we've been here and it's been very nice people places to go we think that there's basically 63 lol and they didn't stop us from coming and. we are a little bit worried about the ok we are or saw we leave here instead because we can see told if you are ok ok you you go out and you would you try to to leave normally obviously if you try to work to go ahead meanwhile in france the louvre has been shut down staff refused to work because they were worried about the potential spread of the virus in the world's most visited museum. in switzerland all events with more than 1000 visitors have been banned until