Italians may be stuck at home — the country is now locked down, in the face of what is so far Europe’s most severe Coronavirus outbreak — but they are still getting their voices heard.

At precisely noon on Saturday, millions of Italians, from Piedmont to Sicily, leaned out of windows or stood on their balconies to applaud the health care workers in hospitals and other front-line medical staff who have been working round the clock to care for Coronavirus patients.

Messages went out to fellow Italians via social media with a call, asking Italians to sing the national anthem — or play it on a musical instrument — at exactly 6 p.m on Friday night. The socially distant flash mob swept social media and various videos are doing the rounds.