A countrywide lockdown in Italy because of the coronavirus didn’t stop defiant Italians from enjoying their Friday. People up and down the country opened their windows and came together to sing the national anthem for a ‘flash mob’ to raise morale in an increasingly difficult time.
The national anthem ‘Fratelli d’Italia’ was blared out of speakers from Turin to Naples and families sang along cheering from their balconies, clanging together saucepans, for a moment of respite from a tough week under coronavirus lockdown.
“Andrà tutto bene”, meaning “everything will be alright”, has become a symbolic phrase of hope in the coronavirus crisis that has left the entire country under quarantine as the biggest outbreak outside in Europe gets worse and worse every day. The phrase has appeared on placards and banners across the country.
The flashmob was organized on social media spread through WhatsApp