Coronavirus: Inside Italy's red zone

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What's it like living in Italy's coronavirus red zone? Marzio Toniolo, who lives in San Fiorano, talks to RTÉ News about life under lockdown

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In the northern Italian village of San Fiorano, groups of all ages gather outdoors to catch up and play cards.

It's been over a week since the towns were locked down by the Italian government, the main routes in and out blocked off.Marzio Toniolo is a 35-year-old primary school teacher. He normally makes a record of his travels through reportage photography, but now it's the streets of his own town that he is documenting.

"But inside, it's not a completely closed area. You can go through the fields if you really wanted to escape."We told my grandpa 100 times that the bar is not open because of the Spanish flu, to make him understand "We told my grandpa 100 times that the bar is not open because of the Spanish flu, to make him understand ," he says."That's really a problem because lots of elderly people go out to meet each other, and they go around in groups.

"I think that this thing will pass, of course. It might take a long time, but it's not Ebola or Chernobyl. It's like a strong flu or pneumonia, it's possible to get over it," he said. "I don't think there's secrecy around it as such - maybe a little bit, because I imagine that there's a little feeling of blame or fault in saying to others that you're infected," says Marzio.

"Mayors are on the front line. They absorb everything, for better or worse", he tells AFP from his home in Borgonovo, a town of some 8,000 inhabitants in north Italy.The picturesque little town of Borgonovo Val Tidone sits among the rolling hills of Emilia Romagna.

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