Bars, museums, schools ... Everything is closed again in a large part of Italy.
Since Monday morning, half of the transalpine regions have been reconfigured for three weeks to relieve hospital pressure.
These territories placed in the red zone have seen a colossal increase in cases of coronavirus due to the British variant.
"With this reconfinement, we lose taste for life", breathes Francesca.
In more than half of the Italian regions, the inhabitants are again ordered to stay at home since Monday morning until April 6 because of the coronavirus.
In Rome, this decision is difficult for the population to accept.
For Francesca, it's the cold shower.
"It's as if nothing had changed since last year. For Easter, we will still be totally confined as at Christmas," laments the Roman, tired.
No more lunches on the terrace and coffee at the counter.
After a parenthesis of a month and a half of semblance of normality, all the bars, restaurants and museums, which reopened last month, closed on Monday.
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Exactly like a year ago, during the first confinement.
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A drastic turn of the screw wanted by the Italian government to stem an acceleration in contamination since February 1 and ease the pressure on hospitals on the verge of saturation.
Italy has been largely affected by a third wave of the coronavirus due to the British variant, now in the majority.
The Minister of Health expects the situation to improve in the second half of the spring.