Servebolt.com | Amazingly fast managed web-hostingAs of April 6, 2020, Italy recorded more than 128,000 people infected Covid-19 with over 15,000 deaths. It is the second largest epidemic in the world after the US, but it is the most deadly region in the world, with the mortality rate accounting for more than 12% of people infected in the country.
Although the majority of infections are mainly located in the affluent area of the Northern part of Italy. But the southern provinces of the country are also feeling the burden of the economy as people begin to suffer from severe food and money shortages. They do not even know where the future will go and when they will receive the next paycheck.
The economic burden on the shoulders has led many people in southern Italy to conspire to break into the city’s grocery stores to steal food and money. The government even worries that the prolonged violence can cause economic and security and political instability.
The photo below will depict the harsh reality of southern Italy, where people have to beg the police for money, call for government subsidies, even raid grocery stores for food and money.
On March 9, Italy officially entered a period of national blockade due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic, causing the country’s death toll to rise.
The Italian army wears a mask standing guard in front of Duomo in Milan on February 24, 2020
Although most of the cases of Covid-19 are in the wealthy northern region of Italy, the southern region of the country is also heavily affected by economic closure and is currently facing poverty. and instability.
One of the busiest streets in Palermo, Italy becomes extraordinarily deserted on March 13, 2020.
Many people in poor areas of southern Italy, including Sicily, Campania, Calabria and Puglia, are beginning to struggle for lack of money and food.
A worker wearing a mask prepares to close his fruit stall at the old Il Capo flea market in the city of Sicily, Italy on March 11, 2020.
Long queues lined up at food stalls in the city, and many even pressured grocery store owners to get free food.
Many people wear masks, standing in line at a food store in Palermo, Italy.
Italian police must increase security at supermarkets and grocery stores to limit violence. Many people even yelled at police saying they had no money.
Many people look to charities and food banks for help. However, this flow of people asking for help seems to last forever, never ending.
“People are scared, not only viruses but also poverty. A lot of people are unemployed and undernourished. They stand in a long queue here for food aid,” said a pastor in Naples, Italy. The Guardian.
To help others, many people across Italy volunteered to put food in baskets and put them on the road for neighbors to pick up.
The southern region of Italy was severely economically affected by Italy’s blockade due to disease. An estimated 3.3 million Italians are working to receive cash, of which about 1 million are concentrated in the southern region of the country.
A man wearing a mask goes to buy food on a street without a shadow in Palermo, Italy.
Many people do not know where their future will go and this situation will never end.
Many small business owners and workers worry that their store will not be able to reopen when the blockade is lifted. “I feel like I’ve come to an end,” said a waitress who had just lost her job in Sicily.
The mayor of Palermo is concerned that organized crime groups will soon spread and make the situation more and more hopeless.
Many people even fear that criminal organizations will take advantage of this opportunity to lure in people who are desperate for food shortages.
Realizing that the situation could be more serious, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is urgently drafting an economic relief package worth 600 euros per month for disadvantaged unemployed people in Southern Italy.
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