The crystal clear and clean canals and the silence of the streets surprised the residents of Veneza, in Italy, which this week began to circulate after the opening of some stores after more than a month of total confinement due to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Bookstores and stationery stores, as well as children's clothing stores, reopened from Tuesday, but only for two days a week.
Instead of the usual hustle and bustle, residents, all equipped with masks and gloves, are preparing for phase 2 of containment, which involves a series of measures to prevent the Covid-19 outbreak from spreading quickly again.
In the Veneto region, whose capital is Venice, 981 deaths have been recorded (according to data released this Thursday, 16) since the start of the pandemic, which killed a further 22.170 people across the country.
Despite the successful strategy applied by this region since the detection of the first cases, the president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, decided to double the safety distance between people to two meters.
Since March 9, the Italian government has imposed strict containment measures to contain the spread of the virus, which has paralyzed much of the peninsula's economic activities and especially tourism, Venice's main source of subsistence.
Containment measures affect the entire Italian population and have been extended across the entire peninsula until May 3, with some exceptions depending on the region.
