Coronavirus Lockdown: Quarantined Italians Head To Balconies For A Little Song, Dance & Cheer

Italy has the largest number of cases COVID-19 outside of China, the epicentre of the outbreak. The crisis has brought the countries economy to its knees, the health system is crumbling under pressure with the growing number of patients and normal life has come to a complete standstill.

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Despite the crisis, Italians trying to put a smile on each other's face by with the help of music. No matter which corner of the world one may belong, music is the one unifying factor and Italians are making the most of it.

Social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 spread has the potential to take a massive mental toll on people. To keep all of that negativity at bay, people in Italy are coming together in their balconies and singing popular songs so that everyone can join in.

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People stuck at home even took their musical instruments to the balconies, determined to uplift spirits amid the dark times.

A Twitter user named Leonardo Carella posted a thread which shows videos of people across Italy using Music as a medicine in the face of the growing Coronavirus crisis.

1. In this video from Salerno, people are seen singing an Italian song

Italians in lockdown all over Italy are keeping each other company by singing, dancing and playing music from the balconies. A thread to celebrate the resilience of ordinary people. This is Salerno: pic.twitter.com/3aOchqdEpn

¡ª Leonardo Carella (@leonardocarella) March 13, 2020

2. People in Seinna were captured singing their city anthem

This video was originally shared by Italian journalist David Allegranti on Thursday night and has been viewed nearly one million times on his account. "In Siena, the city to which I am very attached, you stay at home but you sing together as if you were on the street. I was moved," Allegranti wrote in Italian.

People of Siena, Italy sing a song Viva la nostra Siena (hooray for our Siena) together, from their windows to raise their spirits during the Italian #COVID19 lockdown ?? pic.twitter.com/jBSbkvds4d

¡ª Coronavirus (@SARS_COVID19) March 13, 2020

3. People in Turin were seen shaking a leg to Macarena

This is Turin pic.twitter.com/fdVJ5PZAr6

¡ª Leonardo Carella (@leonardocarella) March 13, 2020

4. In another video posted by an Italian resident named Susy Unica Silvestri, people in neighbouring chant upbeat messages such as "go Italy, go Naples!" and "there is no virus that can beat us."

In the face of Coronavirus outbreak, the government in Italy has ordered all shops, bars and restaurants across the country to close after the country¡¯s death toll from surged to 1,266, recording the highest leap in a single day , reports the Guardian.

A nurse in northern Italy said that fighting the virus was like being in the middle of ¡°a world war.¡± Roberta Re, a nurse at Piacenza hospital in Emilia-Romagna told Guardian, "It¡¯s an experience I would compare to a world war."

"But it¡¯s a war that isn¡¯t fightable with traditional arms ¨C as we don¡¯t yet know who the enemy is and so it¡¯s difficult to fight. The only weapon we do have to avoid things getting even worse is to stay at home and to respect the rules, to do what they did in China, as this is paying off," Re added.

Meanwhile, Prime minister Giuseppe Conte repeated his call for Italians to ¡°stay at home.¡±