In mid-February this year, a new coronavirus, COVID-19, broke out in Italy, mainly in the Lombardy region, where the important northern city of Milan is located. The outbreak developed so quickly that the Italian government gradually began to implement a variety of control measures, including the closure of some areas, however, the outbreak was not significantly controlled, and finally had no choice but to implement a total blockade.
The total number of Chinese and overseas Chinese and foreign students in Italy at that time was more than 300,000, mainly Chinese businessmen in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. As the epidemic continued into March, the situation in Italy was still very bad, while the epidemic in the country was basically under control, so many people began to worry that the Chinese and overseas Chinese in Italy and international students would concentrate on returning to their home countries, which could lead to the importation of the epidemic. So then some people on the internet started to make articles and rumors that 100,000 Italian Chinese and overseas Chinese will return home soon. However this is false news that has not been confirmed and cannot be true.
First of all, the Italian government had already issued a restrictive order to limit the movement of the population, without a valid reason, without proof of employment is not allowed to leave the mirror. If you have to leave the mirror, then you may lose your Italian residency status and visa. Most of the people in Italy are Chinese who have been in business and working for many years, and they are unlikely to lose their jobs because of the epidemic.
Secondly, even if many of them want to go back to their home countries, the reality is that the conditions do not allow them to do so. Because at the beginning of the epidemic, direct flights between China and Italy have been suspended. And because of the epidemic reason countries have implemented epidemic control measures, reduce flights or cancel all flights, which makes the flights to leave Italy itself is very little, basically a hard to find. If you want to return to your home country, you need to transfer to a third-party airport to be able to do so.
Lastly, it is also a very real problem, because the purpose of returning to the country is to avoid the infection, but to go to the airport to take a plane to transfer back to the country, which is the same as to increase the risk of their own infection. What's more, the cost of returning home is very high, and you'll need to undergo a 14-day quarantine after landing, and you'll have to take care of your own food and lodging. It's better to take precautions locally in Italy and wait for the epidemic to pass.
The outbreak virus itself is a scourge, but it now appears not to be completely unavoidable. There are new coronavirus COVID-19 itself is not a terminal disease, if not infected, then need to do is to follow the doctor's advice, timely and good isolation treatment, normal patients can recover in a week basically. So pay attention to protection, but do not be overly fearful, after all, people have sufficient knowledge of this virus. So you should never confuse yourself, let alone start rumors.
Some people are always as strange as they seem to be when it comes to some problems, and they want to derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. Schadenfreude, of which there are many, believes that Chinese nationals in Italy had it coming and should not have returned home but stayed in Italy after the outbreak. This kind of thinking is absolutely wrong and extremely narrow-minded.