FRANCESCA VOLPI
photography
Medical personnel evaluate the case of a man who arrived with an ambulance and declares symptoms that might be associated with the virus, in one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel care for patients in an emergency temporary room, set up to ease pressure on the healthcare system, at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Friday, March 13, 2020. Hospitals in the worst-affected areas of Italy, like Brescia, hav reached a breaking point, not being able to cope with high number of patients. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A member of the italian civil protection placing a rose on a coffin containing the body of a victim of COVID19, in Ponte San Pietro, Bergamo, Italy. On April 4, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A patient with suspected COVID-19 symptoms being checked in his home by doctors, in Brescia. On April 9, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Coffins of people who died as consequence of the COVID-19 infection, are stored in the San Giuseppe church in the town of Seriate, in the province of Bergamo, Northern Italy. On April 2, 2020.
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A priest giving a blessing while at the phone with the relatives of a man who died from COVID-19, in a cemetery in Brescia, on April 1st, 2020. The funeral was held with no-one else but the priest.
A doctor watches over a Covid-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital in Cremona, Northern Italy. On April 9, 2020.
Doctors who volunteer in the USCA program about to enter the house of a couple, where both have symptoms of the COVID-19. USCA doctors are the one in charge of visiting at home the people that have symptoms, when their family doctor is unable to go. On April 9, 2020.
A patient with suspected COVID-19 symptoms being checked in his home by doctors, in Brescia. On April 9, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A patient with suspected COVID-19 symptoms being checked in his home by doctors, in Brescia. On April 9, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A patient with suspected COVID-19 symptoms being checked in his home by doctors, in Brescia. On April 9, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Eleonora, a family doctor practicing in Cologne, province of Brescia. Here portrayed in her home during the times of the COVID 19 emergency in Italy. Friday, March 20, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
The bishop of Brescia giving a blessing to the coffins of those who died because of the COVID 19. The coffins have been placed inside the church of the cemetery of Brescia, which is closed to the public due to the sanitary emergency. On Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
Members of the civil protection and carabinieri, are seen transporting the bodies of the victims of the COVID19 from in temporary deposit in Ponte San Marco, Bergamo, Northen Italy, on Friday, April 3, 2020. Francesca Volpi/Blooomberg.
In a wearehouse used to stock coffins, in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northen Italy. The warehouse of a road maintenance company, turned by the Mayor in one of the temporary deposits in the Bergamo area, waiting to be carried by the army to the crematoriums. Here get the coffins from the West part of the province. On March 30, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi.
In a wearehouse used to stock coffins, in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northen Italy. The warehouse of a road maintenance company, turned by the Mayor in one of the temporary deposits in the Bergamo area, waiting to be carried by the army to the crematoriums. Here get the coffins from the West part of the province. On March 30, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi.
In a wearehouse used to stock coffins, in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northen Italy. The warehouse of a road maintenance company, turned by the Mayor in one of the temporary deposits in the Bergamo area, waiting to be carried by the army to the crematoriums. Here get the coffins from the West part of the province. On March 30, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi.
The bishop of Brescia giving a blessing to the coffins of those who died because of the COVID 19. The coffins have been placed inside the church of the cemetery of Brescia, which is closed to the public due to the sanitary emergency. On Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
Patients who either wait to be hospitalized or wait for the result of the tampon in an emergency temporary overflow building that used to be an industrial laundry, set up for the COVID 19 patients only and to ease pressure on the first aid unit, at the hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 23, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel take care of a man who came to the medical checkpoint with symptoms that might be associated to the virus. March 13, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
A patients being brought into the X ray room in a ward of a temporary field hospital that has been set up outside of the main hospital in Brescia, where are treated and accepted only people with positive to or with symptoms of the COVID 19 virus. Monday, March 23, 2020.
Medical personnel prepare to evaluate a patient who arrived in an ambulance at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel communicates with the ambulances arriving at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel care for patients in an emergency temporary overflow building, set up to ease pressure on the healthcare system, at a hospital in Brescia, Italy, on Monday, March 16, 2020. Europe's largest coronavirus outbreak is putting unprecedented strain on the Italian health-care system, with hospitals in the worst-affected areas close to the breaking point. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A medical worker sanitizes her boots at field hospital to be run by non-governmental organisation, Samaritan's Purse, outside of Cremona hospital, in Cremona, Italy, on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Italy banned any movement inside the country and reported another 651 fatalities on Sunday. Photographer: Francesca Volpi/
Tents and other emergency structures were set up to ease procedures at a medical checkpoint outside the hospital of Brescia, Northern Italy. March 13, 2020. ((Photographer: Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg)
A woman who came to the emergency checpoint with symptoms that might be associated with the coronavirus sits in one of the tents and other emergency structures were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, Northern Italy, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel works inside the trage tent, one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
People who came to the emergency medical chekpoint with symtomps that might be associated with the corona virus, wait to be checked by medical personell where tents and other emergency structures were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, Northern Italy, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
People wearing protective masks are seen passing by one of the entrances of the Brescia hospital, in northen Italy, where Tents and other emergency structures were set up to ease procedures, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Medical personnel works inside the trage tent, one of the emergency structures that were set up to ease procedures outside the hospital of Brescia, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
During a church service with no public at the Brescia Cathedral, in Brescia, Italy. On Saturday, March 21, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
A priest giving his blessing during a funeral in the street, outside the crematory of Brescia. Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
People wait in line to enter a supermarket in Brescia, on Friday, 20 February 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg
People wait in line to enter a supermarket in Brescia, on Friday, 20 February 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg
Caritas activities at the canteen for poor people. Usually it’s open and people can eat inside in a common room, but because of the current COVID19 emergency, staff members only deliver food to people in a plastic bag. Many poor canteens in Italy have closed due to the emergency in the country. In Brescia, north of Italy, March 23, 2020. Photographer: Francesca Volpi
A man on a scooter wearing protective masks is seen passing by one of the entrances of the Brescia hospital, in northen Italy, where Tents and other emergency structures were set up to ease procedures, Friday, March 13, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A gondolier waits for tourist in his spot in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
A young man wearing a protective mask to counteract the possible infection of the ''CoronaVirus' while being checked by security people at the entrace of the Milan Dome. The entrace to the Dome has been rescrtricted to those who wish to pray, whereas tourists are banned for the entire week due to the protective measures put in place by the Italian Government. Milan, Italy, on Monday, February 24, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Only two people in a bar on Friday night in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi For the Wall Street Journal)
A couple looking at their phone wearing a protective mask to counteract the possible infection of the ''CoronaVirus' in Duomo square, Milan, Italy, on Monday, February 24, 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi / Bloomberg)
Empty tables at bars in San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
Porter Service people are left with no job due to the lack of tourists in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
Ferries that serve as public transport but also mean of transport for tourists, travel empty on the gran canal river in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A couple of tourists from France visiting Venice look out at the Grand Canal and the Rialto Bridge while wearing protective respiratory masks in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
A couple of tourists film while on a ferry while going through an almoust empty Gran Canal in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
A view of street vendors stalls in an empty road with behinde the San Marco Square tower in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi)
A gondolier awaits for clients in San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
The bar “Arcicchetti” in Venice, that usually has a lot of costumers that fill up the square, is seen almost empty at night in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb 2020. (Photographer: Francesca Volpi for The Wall Street Journal)
General view of the streets at night in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A view of an almoust empty Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A view of the most iconic “Bridge of Sights” and an almoust empty canal (which is usually full of tourists and gondolas) in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A view of an empty riverside next to San Marco square which is one most visited spots visited by tourists in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Gondoliers await for clients in San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A view of an empty San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Tourists with protective masks pass by a stall in an empty San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Few tourists (one of which wears a protective respiratory mask) on the Paglia Bridge, an iconic touristic spot in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Gondolas are parked and not used because of lack of tourists, on the riverside next to San Marco Square in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A woman wearing a protective respiratory mask looks at some food in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Gondoliers await for clients in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
A view of an empty Gran Canal from the iconic Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Tourists wearing protective respiratory masks look at the map in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
Gondoliers await for clients in Venice, Italy, 29 Feb. 2020. (For The Wall Street Journal)
At a roadblock on in the town of Guardamiglio in the provice of Lodi in the Lombardy region, Italy, on Monday, February 25, 2020.
People read the signs that warns people about the temporary closure of the famous Teatro della Scala, due to the measures issued by the Italian Government in regards to the spread of the CoronaVirus in the Lombardy Region. Central Milan, Italy, on Monday, February 24, 2020.