“Our life goes on normally,” Bellini wrote to customers who had booked a stay in her one-bedroom apartment near the city’s Duomo. “We wanted to explain to our guests that we are not a quarantined city,” she added in a separate note.
Some travelers, though, say the risk is simply too great. In Berlin, tech company manager Jaime Fernandez-Galiano and his wife, who is seven months pregnant, canceled a family trip to northern Italy after her doctor advised them not to go. Fernandez-Galiano’s company would also have required him to work at home for 14 days after the trip to minimize the risk of spreading the virus to his team.
“I might get it, and because I’m 32, I would be OK,” Fernandez-Galiano said. “But if I’m contagious, I may infect other people who may infect other people who are older.”
--With assistance from Corinne Gretler, Rodrigo Orihuela, Laura Millan Lombrana, Charles Penty, Sarah Muller, David Scanlan and Zoe Schneeweiss.
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.