A staff member of an LGBTQ newspaper in Italy says the coronavirus has been “horrible” for his country. “It was just unexpected for us,” Giuseppe, an account executive of Gay.it, told the Los Angeles Blade on March 26 during a Skype interview from his home in Fiuggi, a town in central Italy’s Lazio region. “In a single day it was beautiful, hugs and kisses and we met together.
And then the day after they just closed everything.” “A lot of people have passed away,” he added. “It’s just very horrible for us.” The latest statistics from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine indicate there are 101,739 confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy, and 11,591 people have died.
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