Footage claiming to show a fight breaking out at a supermarket inside the ‘red zone’ in Italy where 50,000 people have been placed in quarantine has emerged online.The video shows two shoppers coming to blows near the tills of a Lidl supermarket as a member of staff rushes forward to break up the scuffle. A social media user who shared the footage said it was filmed in the town of Casalpusterlengo, one of 10 towns in the Lombardy region that have been locked down to contain the coronavirus. Food has been running low in the few shops that have remained open with Italian police enforcing a two-week quarantine to contain the outbreak, which is now beginning to spiral across Europe. Only supermarkets and pharmacies have remained open since the order was enforced at the weekend, with fears that food supplies are running short.In the first few days after the regional government imposed the lockdown, shelves were stripped of pasta, tinned good and bottles of water.Regular supplies are being sent in past police and army roadblocks – but that has not stopped panic buying from those trapped within the cordon.Residents who attempt to leave face arrest and a three-month prison sentence.Police have set up 24 hour road blocks several miles from the affected towns and stop all traffic from going in. Share this article Share Only those with written permission are allowed to proceed.A second layer of security on the outskirts of towns like Codogno – where the virus originated when a 38 year old man fell ill – is also in place and guarded day and night by the military.In an attempt to keep residents happy a ‘no man’s land’ has been set up on the edge of each town.Friends and relatives are allowed to bring supplies and place them in the middle of the road before being told to withdraw behind the blockade.The resident is allowed to walk forward and pick up the food but guards ensure there is no human contact. One local resident told local Italian media that they understood the need to enforce the quarantine but they biggest problem they faced was boredom.Landscape artist Auro Michelon said: ‘I go up the asphalt road and reach the intersection, it is actually deserted!’But soon our dreams of freedom are broken, a small pickup truck from the municipality arrives slowly on the road with signs and barriers immediately behind a police patrol.’They get out and immediately ask me and two other farmers, ‘What are you doing here? You can’t be here!’. We immediately leave for fear of arrest.’As Italy struggles to contain the coronavirus spread, authorities said a four-year-old child was undergoing tests to see if she had been infected.The girl, who lives in the town of Castiglone, D’Adda, is now in isolation at her home while authorites wait to see if she develops the full symptoms. She is understood to have been in the Codogno hospital where the outbreak first began. The death toll stands at 11 with 322 others having tested positive.The country’s Prime Minister
