Lombardy

The Lombardy region is Italy's hardest hit region and streets are deserted.

Hundreds of tourists at a hotel in the Spanish resort of Tenerife are being tested after another vacationer, an Italian from Lombardy, tested positive.

The worst-hit region is Lombardy, where six people have died and 212 people have contracted the potentially deadly disease.

Now, Marzio is one of around 50,000 people whose lives are on hold after they were placed under quarantine as Italy tries to contain Europe's worst outbreak of coronavirus that flared up in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto.

Shockingly, there have been at least five attempted escapes from a “red zone” around 10 locked-down Lombardy towns.

The government approved a new decree which effectively locks down the region of Lombardy in the north and 14 other provinces, covering one quarter of the Italian population.

The wealthy region of Lombardy and 14 other provinces in the nearby regions of Emilia-Romagna, Veneto and Piedmont have been locked down in efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Many looked at what was unfolding in the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto as though they were observing a distant planet through a telescope.

Lombardy boasts one of the most efficient and well-funded health care systems not just in Italy, but also in Europe.

The bells are tolling in the villages of the north Italian region of Lombardy, registering yet another coronavirus death.