In Singapore, Italian-born Singapore PR Antonio Miscellaneo, 47, is famously known among foodies as the pizza wizard of private diner Casa Nostra, which he operates from his Joo Chiat apartment. But right now, the former IT architect for Credit Suisse and video game programmer at Sony Psygnosis is cooking under very different circumstances. He’s trapped with his Singaporean wife and two kids in his hometown of Belluno, a town in the Veneto region of northern Italy near Venice, where Antonio has been since February (back when the Covid-19 virus had not yet surfaced there) to work on a short-term IT project. The death toll of Covid-19 victims in Italy is a staggering 7,503 to date, with over 74,000 tested positive for the virus. He shares his experience under lockdown in Italy exclusively with 8 DAYS.
Additional reporting by Florence Fong
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1/281/28Casa Nostra temporarily closed with Covid-19 in S’pore -
2/282/28Decision to travel to Italy in February -
3/283/28The blissful beginning -
4/284/2821 Feb: The day that changed everything -
5/285/28Yet, people still continued to party as usual -
6/286/28Escalation to the lockdown on 11 March -
7/287/28How fear slowly crept in -
8/288/28Lockdown measures -
9/289/28Close apart -
10/2810/28Life under lockdown -
11/2811/28Our typical day since the lockdown -
12/2812/28Home schooling for the kids -
13/2813/28How we keep the kids entertained -
14/2814/28Maintaining relationships -
15/2815/28Only allowed outside for exercise and grocery runs -
16/2816/28Restrictions on shopping for essentials -
17/2817/28Cooking two meals a day -
18/2818/28Frying pizza ’cos the oven is faulty -
19/2819/28Fried pizza in a pinch -
20/2820/28Silver lining: super fresh Italian produce -
21/2821/28Another plus point: the kids actually eat their veg here -
22/2822/28Improvising on Chinese dishes -
23/2823/28My daughter’s birthday -
24/2824/28Six-year-old angel with her supermarket-bought gift -
25/2825/28Pancake birthday cake -
26/2826/28Love will keep us together -
27/2827/28Plans to return to Singapore -
28/2828/28The details