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How to live in a national lockdown caused by Covid-19 infection spread

Italy is facing a national lockdown due to Covid-19 infection. How are Italians living?

Gianluca Malato
6 min readMar 24, 2020
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Covid-19 infection is spreading across the world with incredible speed. Starting from a little market in China, in a few months, it has changed the social and economical tissue of our society.

National lockdown is necessary to avoid virus spread. Italy is the first nation in the Western World that has chosen this drastic way. Some countries have decided not to apply such a hard measure, other countries are starting these days. If this happens to a country, how can people live?

Italy’s lockdown today

In the March 9–15 week, Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has decided a two-levels lockdown.

How does a lockdown look like? On March 14, 2020 people are not allowed to go outside their houses without a valid reason. Valid reasons are work, health issues, buy food, go to the pharmacy or a doctor, take a walk with your pets.

Everybody going outside his house must carry a self-certification with himself showing the reason why he’s outside the house. Police forces are randomly checking if everybody is following these rules and, if somebody…

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Gianluca Malato
Gianluca Malato

Written by Gianluca Malato

Theoretical Physicists, Data Scientist and fiction author. I teach Data Science, statistics and SQL on YourDataTeacher.com. E-mail: gianluca@gianlucamalato.it

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