Coronavirus Updates from Milan and New Orleans

MAYOR GIUSEPPE SALA, MILAN, ITALY: More or less. Now, the situation — we have situation is under control. We don’t know for how long, for how many weeks or months, but now the situation is honestly under control. So, we are inviting the people to come back to a sort of normality. Is it difficult for me because we had 2,000 deaths and so, it is not simple. But now — so, this is the reason for — we check. It is difficult for me to say that we have an opportunity to recover in a different way. It is not an opportunity but it is an obligation because we have to come back to a new normality.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: So, that’s really interesting, that way you call it an obligation and not just an opportunity. Let me just quickly ask you, Mayor Cantrell, in New Orleans. I mean, obviously, the world is looking at the United States, which is the current epicenter along with Latin America, and there’s been a surge also in your state, Louisiana, and as I said, you’re closing down some bars and other things in New Orleans. How worried are you that this phase 1, because we’re still in the first wave of this, may very much not be controlled?

MAYOR LATOYA CANTRELL (D-LA), NEW ORLEANS: Well, first, thank you for having me and Mayor Sala. In regards to being worried, absolutely. The City of New Orleans was the epicenter, a hot spot, in the United States right at March-April. And the City of New Orleans, we came into this as a deficit in regards to (INAUDIBLE) populations of people of those living with health disparities. But we were able to flatten that curve by 96 percent, significantly coming out of community spread. We moved from phase 1 to phase 2, and we are now seeing some reverse — some — we’re taking — we’re moving in the wrong direction. We are not back into community spread, we don’t want to go back there, and that is exactly why I’ve had to put more restrictions, for example, on bars, although I did allow for them to open, not at full capacity, but open in the second phase. The new cases that we are seeing are directly aligned with the bars and the activity that happens at bars. And so, the governor took a step in the right direction, closing bar.