Italy's economic heart is almost unrecognizable.

Hardly anyone in the shopping malls.

It's famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation.

This is an unprecedented crisis in this country's recent history.

We're looking at what is happening in my city is worrying me, and it's also saddening because Milan is a lively city and see it like this.

Today was almost a defeat for me.

I never would have thought this would happen.

Milan's Malpensa airport has now suspended all flights its neighboring airport now restricted to running only domestic flights.

But that hasn't stopped people attempting to get away.

Fearing further contagion, leaders off Italy's southern regions have warned hundreds of thousands of its citizens who went to work or study in the north of the country not to return home.

But groups of people continue to arrive from Milan, arriving with their masks on, but there was no one to test them for covert 19.

The harsh restrictions are designed to slow down the spread of the disease, but there are fears that it may be too little, too late.

Hospitals in the affected region have been inundated and sick residents are now being asked to stay at home.

A stretched health care system is struggling to keep up with the increasing numbers.

There are no more available beds in hospitals and actually the current hospital, which serve about 500,000 people in all the area.

Not only, of course, in this little town the doctor's got infected.

So there are no more intensive care but available away from Italy.

There were further increases of the virus all over the continent.

In France, at least 19 people have died from the virus, with more than 1100 cases recorded in the country, and there are nearly 800 people infected in Germany.

One German national diagnosed with covert, 19 has died on holiday in Egypt.

Whilst Italy's lock down is the most stringent outside of China, containment may have come too late.