Rome,
Like the Milanese on February 23, the Romans' first reflex after the national quarantine was to stock up on pasta and tomato sauce. Because there is a limit to the sacrifice of the art of living requested by the Prime Minister.
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Like in Naples, Turin, Palermo or Abruzzo, the Italians even got up at night to go to the supermarkets open 24 hours a day. The flow of input being controlled, they waited wisely to be able to enter it. Where they were asked to respect a meter distance between two people, especially at the checkout, and to put on gloves to choose their fruits and vegetables. Then they went to the market: "At six in the morning, the market was packed and the customers were buying more than they could hold," says Paolo, from the market in Piazza Epiro in Rome, masked and busy with replenish its display of fruits and vegetables.
Why did you wait so long to take these measures all over Italy?It's ten o'clock. The market is not empty, but the crowds
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