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Rome, Mar 16 (EFE) .- (Camera: Álvaro Padilla) One year after the first total lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, most of Italy has been confined again since Monday with the ban on leaving home if it is not for work or reasons of need, and with 80 percent of the students following the classes online. FOOTAGE OF THE EMPTY STREETS OF ROME.
Codogno (Italia), Feb 19 (EFE).- (Camera: Gonzalo Sánchez) There was a time when a town in northern Italy wanted to save the world from the pandemic. Codogno became Europe's "ground zero" a year ago and began an unusual confinement trying to cage the virus, an intention that would soon disappear.Codogno woke up on February 21 a year ago with one of his neighbors infected with the new coronavirus, the first indigenous case, not imported, found in Italy and Europe. FOOTAGE OF THE TOWN OF CODOGNO, IN ITALY SOUNDBITES OF LUCIANO PARMIGIANI, CODOGNO RED CROSS COORDINATOR"There were really tough moments because they left at dawn and arrived at night. In a hundred days we have done 145,000 kilometers and 2,300 interventions, when normally as Emergencies we carry out nine or ten interventions a day. This way, you can understand the accumulation of work we had in those 120 days. "DOCTOR STEFANO PAGLI, CHIEF OF EMERGENCIES OF THE MAYOR HOSPITAL MAYOR OF LODI AND CODOGNO"Surely the awareness of being in front of something that we had never seen with that dimension. The idea was that it was a challenge that could have given better results than unfortunately we have obtained. We thought we could contain it, for a week we believed it , but later we realized that it was not in any way containable because at the same time it had already arisen elsewhere. But that first week we believed it. This was a strong motivational element that gave me and the others a strong push to give the best of us. Each one of us did it because we were strongly motivated by a higher objective: To try to safeguard and protect the rest, not so much Lodi, which was already difficult, or Bergamo, which we already knew was going through moments of great difficulty, but above all Milan."
Codogno (Italy), Feb 18 (EFE) .- (Camera: Gonzalo Sánchez) A year ago the small Italian city of Codogno scared the world as the first major focus of coronavirus in Europe: "It arrived like a meteorite", recalls its mayor, Francesco Passerini, settled in the relative calm that experience in battle gives and, above all, the arrival of the vaccine.FOOTAGE OF CODOGNO.SOUNDBITES OF THE TOWN'S MAYOR, FRANCESCO PASSERINI.TRANSLATION:1- Let's say the vaccine is the atomic bomb if we must compare it to a conflict. First, we had rifles and pistols, which have been good at resisting: distance, masks, gel, but it is clear that medical science on the one hand and vaccines on the other are the two great weapons that we must use against this virus.2- We talked about something that was unimaginable, that in Codogno, in the centre of the Po, at that time it was said that the risk areas were ports, airports, large infrastructures that we do not have. So it seemed absurd. And on the other hand, what we had seen or heard were images that came from China, from far away places.3- If we must compare it, more than an avalanche it was a meteorite.4- I decided with the parish that they would let me use some churches. We started with that of Christ (CHURCH), which became a shelter for our neighbours who had unfortunately died.5-It really seemed like a nightmare period, in which on the one hand it seemed that everyone had been to Codogno, something that we hope will happen soon when everything is over and we can talk to each other without these masks. I invite you all because I really want to make Codogno as alive, beautiful, and happy as it was and wants to be again.6- Mainly (the problems of the neighbours) are economic. Currently, the worst-hit sector is the commercial sector, catering, SMEs, the self-employed, who mainly live from community services and in the last 12 months, some of them have only opened for three and a half or four months.
Beirut (Lebanon), Apr 19 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Wael Hamzeh).- Beirut awoke Sunday to virtually empty streets due to the nationwide coronavirus lockdown in Lebanon.DRONE FOOTAGE OF BEIRUT ON SUNDAY.
New York (USA), Apr 9 (EFE / EPA) .- New York State, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, lost 799 people to COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, a new daily maximum, although it saw a reduction in the number of new hospitalizations.(CAMERA: Alba Vigaray)
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