With 50,000 people under a quarantine 40 miles southeast of Milan - stretching across 11 villages and towns - a network of dozens of roadblocks are operated by the police and army in order to keep residents from traveling, and prohibit visitors from entering. The situation has caused residents obvious distress.

Outside a small bar on the edge of northern Italy's coronavirus "red zone," patrons watch as paramedics head-to-toe in protective suits, gloves and face masks attend a house call across the street.

One of the figures in white describes the patient's cough to a colleague over the phone. The bar flies with rumors.

"We're all going to get it," said 22-year-old Claudi Ghidoni, sitting at a plastic table with two friends, the first time she said she's been out of the house since Italian cases of covid-19 dramatically jumped last week. -WaPo