Empty streets, full houses: Italians getting used to the new way of life

On Monday the TV was on as I waited for my detective series to start when suddenly the screen went black, and the news intro music started playing.
It was an emergency broadcast from Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, addressing the nation about the extraordinary measures the government was taking to combat the new coronavirus.
It was on every TV channel, Conte was agitated. It was apparent that he was trying to keep calm and choose his words carefully.
He announced the nationwide lockdown to limit the spread of COVID-19 and told the reporters that "there won't be a red zone, but there will be Italy, a whole protected area."
He went on to explain the new travel restrictions, and while he was speaking, I looked around and anxiously thought that I would be trapped here in my apartment for a very long time.
Minutes later, the prime minister, in an attempt to appeal to the younger generation, used the hashtag that's been going on Twitter for the last couple of days, #IORESTOACASA ( I stay at home ) so it was official - we were to stay at home.
What was happening on Monday evening was radical, and while I was watching the emergency broadcast, it was slowly sinking in that this was extremely serious.
So far, there are 12,462 confirmed cases and 827 deaths in the country, which makes Italy the worst-hit country after China. As the virus keeps spreading each day, and according to Antonio Pesenti, intensive care coordinator in the Lombardy crisis unit, "the healthcare system is one step from collapse."
For the last two weeks, every day at 18:00, we wait for the civil protection chief, Angelo Borelli, to broadcast the "Bollettino" which translates as "the war bulletin."
During WWII, this method of communication via radio was...

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