Advice from Rome: An Ecuadorian voice for Guatemala

Adrianna Fiore is a 26-year-old Ecuadorian woman who migrated to Rome, Italy, to build a career as a news agency marketer. Today, after two years of living in the Eternal City, she faces a pandemic that she never imagined would lock her up in one of the world's most touristy metropolises.

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Italy registered its first two cases of coronavirus on January 31. It was not until February 20th that the first person died. It was not until March 8 that the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, declared a total quarantine in the Lombardy region (to the north), a measure that has been followed by other geographical areas. Today, Italy is the third most affected country in the world, with more than 80,000 cases, below the United States and Spain. The Lombardy region continues to record the highest number of cases.

In this exclusive interview with Glocal, Adrianna shares how she has been living the past few days in Rome: