Martin J. Bull

Martin J. Bull

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  • Coronavirus: lessons from Italy on the difficulties of exiting lockdown
    A Red Cross volunteer checks temperature of a customer at the entrance of an open-air food market that has been reopened, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Cisternino
    Italy has been on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic since it exploded there in late February, and it was the first European country to impose lockdown on its citizens.
  • Italy’s ‘darkest hour’: how coronavirus became a very political problem
    Inside Italy's coronavirus red zone
    The Italian government’s decision to expand its lockdown from two small areas of the north to encompass the entire country is a sign of its increasing desperation to control the spread of novel coronavirus.