Alessia Bonari, symbol of the fight against coronavirus also on the Sanremo stage

Era on March 9, 2020, one of the darkest days for Italy: the lockdown had just begun, intensive care was full but what was happening in the hospitals was not yet clear to the whole population. Alessia Bonari, nurse in a hospital in Milan, she was among the first to take a selfie, in front of the mirror, after an interminable shift in a Covid ward. He did this to show the fatigue and the marks on the face of the mask and other protective equipment.

«What I ask of anyone who is reading this post is not to frustrate the effort we are making, to be altruistic, to stay at home and thus protect those who are more fragile. We young people are not immune to the coronavirus, we too can get sick, or worse still we can make us sick », Alessia wrote, and in a few hours her post went around Italy and the world.

One year later Alessia Bonari is on the stage of the first evening of the Sanremo Festival, Amadeus, host of the first festival in the Covid era, with Sanremo Zona Rossa wanted it to remember the fundamental work that doctors and health workers have done in recent months, in the trenches in the fight against Coronavirus. «We must not let our guard down, together we will make it, we will get out“, He says. Before repeating, which is never too much: “We must use the mask.” Applause.

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