PONTE SAN PIETRO, ITALY - MARCH 28: Carabinieri officers, wearing protective suits, pull a coffin on March 28, 2020 in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northern Italy. The Italian Army has been brought in to ferry coffins out of Bergamo and its province, amongst Italy's most plagued towns, as its morgue and its crematorium struggle to cope with the surging coronavirus death toll. The Italian government continues to enforce the nationwide lockdown measures to control the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)
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PONTE SAN PIETRO, ITALY - MARCH 28: Carabinieri officers, wearing protective suits, pull a coffin on March 28, 2020 in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northern Italy. The Italian Army has been brought in to ferry coffins out of Bergamo and its province, amongst Italy's most plagued towns, as its morgue and its crematorium struggle to cope with the surging coronavirus death toll. The Italian government continues to enforce the nationwide lockdown measures to control the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)
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When Antonia Mortensen was pulled over by police while driving recently in Milan, the northern Italian city where she is staying, it wasn’t for a traffic offense. It was to instruct her fellow passenger to sit in the back of the car and to check that both were wearing face masks.

“We were told we cannot both sit in the front,” said the CNN journalist, who was on her way to hospital with her partner to visit a sick relative.

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