How Italy turned the Covid-19 disaster around

CNN — A horrifying moment in the Covid-19 pandemic hit Italy on March 27, 2020, when the civil protection authorities announced that 969 people had died in just 24 hours. Now, just four months later, life in Italy, the country Vice President Mike Pence once said “no one wanted to be like,” is nearly back to normal, despite occasional spikes in cases that have been attributed to migrants arriving in the country or living in close quarters. “Images of the coffins carried on military trucks in Bergamo were harsh, and evidently they made it clear how leaving the uncontrolled circulation of the virus would lead to serious problems.” ‘Out of the storm’ Slowly, things only got better from that horrible day, with daily cases, finally hitting a plateau and falling to a negligible number of daily infections. “The international situation worries me a lot,” he said, noting that on a global scale we were at “the worst moment of the epidemic.” So what makes a country like Italy, long known for its skepticism for anything that even looks like a rule, win this battle that no one else can seem to come close? We think it’s an insult to our intelligence to comply with a regulation without questioning it first.” So when the government instituted a draconian lockdown on March 10, Severgnini says that Italians believed in rule.