Italy, the hardest hit country in the area, is still reeling from this outbreak, virtually shut down as the number of deaths there continues to rise.

But it's not all doom and gloom.

After all, people have to do do something while they're stuck in quarantine.

A B C's James lawman has more on that every day in Italy, it seems a new, tragic record is broken.

Today, the biggest single jump in fatalities, more than 1200 now lost to this relentless infection.

On 1/4 day of complete isolation for millions, schools closed restaurants, shuttered images of China's deserted streets with a first to shock the world.

Now the people of Europe are retreating into their homes as the virus approaches.

And while most people are heeding, officials calls to keep to themselves.

Some are naturally getting a bit bored and creative work with this man in Rome or a large cylindrical disk around his body to keep others away While he was at a market in Naples.

Solidarity unable to meet in person, neighbors unite in song on Italy's northern city of Turin, locals enjoyed a Pere TiVo's from their balconies while a disco ball shed some much needed light.

Who needs a vacation when you have each other?

This Australian couple recreating their canceled crews from their living room on this tender moment between a brother and sister in America.

He's autistic and scared of the virus.

She teaches him a Bible verse to calm him down.

Okay, well, people around the world find joy where they can.

The fight to stem the tide goes on US and Korean armies banding together to disinfect an apartment complex in Dae Gu.

For those under voluntary quarantine, a palpable sense of responsibility to keep others at bay.

This'll woman in the UK showed us her daily amount of human interaction.

Who is it?

Hint.

It's not much.

I'm under quarantine.

Do you mind just leaving it at the door for me, please?

Thank you.

Great.

Thank you so much.

And she's not the only one.

I, too, have to undergo quarantine after reporting from Italy earlier this week, like millions of others not fighting off a disease, but boredom, it's quite boring between lives.

I'm have every intention off reading my books, but actually in the end I'm just watching a Marchal bug movie because you know Mark Wahlberg cut off from the nightmare.

It's important to find lighter moments, but also remember those living in each night people across the country set down a simple tribute to their heroes.

This'll is Georgia in Milan.

We lit up candles every night here because we wanna feel united.

We cannot see each other even if we cannot touch each other.

We wanna pay un invisible with strong homage to all.

The doctors and nurses are constantly working to help us here on.

And James joins me live from London now, James.

Well, you we know you're in self quarantine.

We hope you were finding little moments of joy the same way these people are.

I have been I mean, you saw there.

I've been watching a lot of television, Diane, I've been trying to read my books.

I managed to get a water rower into this apartment, but I have just found out.

I thought I rented it for a week.

It turns out I rented it for three months, so that was a little bit of a surprise.

I'm not great with maths, but I think I might need it actually, given what's been happening in Europe, all right, well, we hope not.

But talk to me a little bit about how the U.

K is handling things now.

Well, it's interesting, actually, because the UK has taken a very different tack, too much of the rest of Europe.

Boris Johnson believes that there's a possibility that Britain basically could pick up, cut some kind of herd immunity to the virus that actually what he wants is for the virus to pass through the population on for only three elderly and hospitals to be specifically protected whilst everyone else perhaps could get it, but may know, may not be particularly affected by it.

It's a very different tact what we've seen in Europe, I mean today.

In Spain, for instance, they declared a state of national emergency.

We've seen Denmark and the Czech Republic basically sealed their borders.

Frances shut down all schools right from nursery, threw up all the way up to university.

And yet Britain is going it alone and there's been a lot of criticism here in the U.

K.

A lot of people saying, Well, why do we think that we should be doing things differently when we bought a similar number of cases bubbling around the same numbers as other parts of Europe.

The logic, The logic we're told from the government is that they don't want to this total shutdown, specifically a shutdown of schools, because those school Children wouldn't have to go home.

And we have a huge number of health workers in this country who would then have to look after their Children rather than spending time in hospitals on the doctor's in Britain say.

Actually, this virus is not passed around by Children.

They are not a high risk group.

And to shut down schools medically doesn't actually help the situation.

So the idea here is to allow the virus kind of to remain at a kind of a controllable level, but perhaps for a longer period of time, in order that the health service can keep up tonight there we're hearing that Boris Johnson has kind of made a little bit of a U turn in the sense that he's tomorrow where do to here that mass gatherings in this country are going to be banned.

That was something he didn't really want to do.

Scotland has done it because they have the health issues in Scotland and devolved from the rest of the United Kingdom.

But England until up until tonight wasn't going to do that.

But now we're hearing they might.

So there might be a change in the government.

But basically Britain doesn't want to go to the same sort of extremes the rest of Europe.

All right, interesting.

Take James.

We appreciate it.

Thank you.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos Here.

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