With no tourists around, this normally bustling street in Naples' old town where nativity scenes have been made for centuries is eerily empty. Even when tourists do return, it is uncertain whether the shops on the narrow alley can enforce social distancing rules.

Nevertheless, the Di Virgilio family has managed to make the best of the two-month lockdown. Coming from a family of nativity scene makers active since 1830, Gennaro and his father Rosario have created two figurines to honour Italian doctors and nurses who have become the new superheroes.