//VIDEO: Confined to their homes, Italian neighbors sing together to boost morale

VIDEO: Confined to their homes, Italian neighbors sing together to boost morale

Above video: People quarantined in Italy join together in song from balconiesEven in the most desperate times, music can lift the spirits — as some Italian neighbors have proven by singing together in harmony from behind closed doors.Residents in Siena, a city in Tuscany, leaned out of their windows and broke into song Thursday evening in a moment captured in a video posted on Twitter.The video was taken by a local who said they were singing to “warm their hearts” during the quarantine.Italy is in the midst of a lockdown after the government implemented strict isolation measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, which has so far claimed more than 1,000 lives and infected more than 15,000 people in the country.”People of my hometown #Siena sing a popular song from their houses along an empty street to warm their hearts during the Italian #Covid_19 #lockdown,” the resident said in a