A Co Mayo woman living in Italy's worst-hit coronavirus city has urged the Irish public to abide by stringent new measures in this country.
Ballina native Jacintha McCarthy lives in the city of Bergamo, in Lombardy with her husband and three young children. Speaking from her home, Jacintha said life in Bergamo had become "incredibly difficult" over the past few weeks.
As of last night, there were 6,728 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across the province of Bergamo, while the death toll from the disease in Italy as a whole rose by 743 to 6,820. "Life here is incredibly oppressive, tense and dreadful.
People are dying and getting very sick on a daily basis and it's very upsetting," Jacintha said. The old walled city is in lockdown after the