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The Coronavirus Disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious respiratory illness (Sohrabi et al., 2020) that following an initial outbreak in China is rapidly spreading worldwide. New positive cases are increasingly identified in a growing number of countries and the emergency has been recognized as a global pandemic (Coccia, 2020). To face and cope with such an unprecedented healthcare emergency, National governments have adopted specific strategies to limit the large-scale impact of the contagion (Parodi and Liu, 2020; Remuzzi and Remuzzi, 2020). Despite between-country differences exist (Chintalapudi et al., 2020; Roux et al., 2020; Tarrataca et al., 2020), these measures have generally changed from the initial attempts of containment to the subsequent mitigation actions. Lockdown acts have been largely adopted to slow the virus spread, to reduce the demands of intensive healthcare, and to control the contagion rate in the medium-long period (Parodi and Liu, 2020).