https://www.scmp.com/rss/505306/feed Mario Calabresi has spent over 25 years working as a journalist. He started his career as a political reporter for ANSA (Italian news agency) in the Italian Parliament. In 2000 he moved to the political desk of La Repubblica for 1 year and then made the move to La Stampa in Rome where he covered political as well as international issues. He spent two months in New York covering the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. After this he again joined La Repubblica but now in the role of Deputy Managing... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The only thing to break the silence is the sound of the oars chopping in and out of the water, two women row a large wooden boat laden with boxes of fruit, vegetables, eggs and bread. They take them to the houses of those who are in quarantine, those who aren’t allowed to leave their homes. The water of the Rio Novo, which connects the station to the Grand Canal and is usually a highway of taxi boats, is now still and clear, and the girls of “Row Venice” plunge their oars back and forth through... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3084809/gondola-builders-hands-tell-story-venice-emptied-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3084809/gondola-builders-hands-tell-story-venice-emptied-coronavirus?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 May 2020 02:53:58 +0000 On March 7 in Nembro, the death bells stopped tolling. “We decided not to ring them any more since that Saturday, the day of the four funerals. It would have meant that the whole day would be filled with the sound of the death knell, and this would have caused untold anguish for the entire community. We thought it was best to just let things be.” The small Italian town of Nembro, with its 11,500 residents and numerous churches, all under a single parish, is tended by five priests. Four were... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3076697/plague-almost-wiped-out-italian-village-nembro-death-has-returned?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3076697/plague-almost-wiped-out-italian-village-nembro-death-has-returned?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2020 10:16:04 +0000 It was 7:40am on Friday, February 21 when Antonio Castelli, 56, head of the Resuscitation Unit at the Luigi Sacco Hospital in Milan, received a phone call from Giacomo Grasselli, the medical director of the Intensive Care unit at the Policlinico hospital in the same Lombardy capital city. Castelli was at the wheel of his car, alongside him, his wife, who he first met when they were medical students and who now works at the same hospital as a heart surgeon. On their way back from Prague, they had... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3076299/coronavirus-italian-doctors-infection-frontline-milan-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3076299/coronavirus-italian-doctors-infection-frontline-milan-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Mar 2020 23:00:14 +0000