Gondola builder’s hands tell story of Venice emptied by coronavirus crisis

The only thing to break the silence is the sound of the oars chopping in and out of the water, two women row a large wooden boat laden with boxes of fruit, vegetables, eggs and bread. They take them to the houses of those who are in quarantine, those who aren’t allowed to leave their homes.The water of the Rio Novo, which connects the station to the Grand Canal and is usually a highway of taxi boats, is now still, and the girls of “Row Venice” plunge their oars back and forth through the water…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3084809/gondola-builders-hands-tell-story-venice-emptied-coronavirus