

One could live comfortably with neither the heat nor the air conditioning running. Living in lockdown during an Italian spring is one thing.

A nationwide lockdown was implemented that month, which succeeded in reducing the number of daily new cases, but much of life in Italy did not regain any semblance of familiarity until May, when restaurants, bars and other gathering places were allowed to open again (though with strict social distancing protocols in place). By late March of 2020, the country was reporting an average of more than 6,000 new cases per day - a terrifying number at the time. Italy was hit early and hard by the novel coronavirus.
