'People are very scared': Southern Italians brace themselves as the virus spreads across the country
All Italians are currently having to cope with a national lockdown that means they must stay indoors.
. Fines are meted out to anyone that leaves the house without a valid reason such as to buy food or fetch medicine, or if they have to work and can't do so from home. Rachele, like Italy's other 60 million or so inhabitants, is living under a national lockdown imposed by the government. Now, Italy's number of infections has surpassed China, where the coronavirus was first discovered, and is second only to the U.S. where cases have recently soared.
The fragile economies of these regions have prompted many people to resort to doing undeclared, clandestine work or "lavoro nero" as it's called in Italy. This work is easy to pick up and easy to lose, and those people have slipped through the social security net."Aside from people that work and those that have contracts and can receive a salary, there are a lot of people that are involved in illegal work in the south.
the governors of southern regions pleaded with southerners who had gone up north for work not to return home"I speak to you as if you were my children, my brothers, my nephews and nieces: Stop and go back," Michele Emiliano, Puglia's president,: "Get off at the first train station, do not catch planes for Bari and Brindisi, turn back in your cars, get off your buses at the next stop. Do not bring the epidemic that has hit Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna to your Puglia.
"It is clear that the problem is serious and there is a real risk of a civil war precisely because there is more economic poverty in the south, but not because of southern people but because politicians think only of the north," he told CNBC Monday. "When you make people run out of food, you really risk a civil war. With all my heart I hope to never see such a thing," he said.
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