Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Newsflash

This is the moment a pod of dolphins are filmed swimming off the Italian coast in a rare sighting due to the lack of human activity in the area due to the coronavirus lockdown.

In the first video, recorded at the Gaiola natural park near Naples, in the southern Italian region of Campania, the dolphins can be seen breaching the surface and swimming next to the boat of the Finance Guard officers recording them.

Maurizio Simeone, from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Research of Gaiola Onlus who work in scientific research of the coast’s environment, told Newsflash that the video was recorded by officers from the Finance Guard who were patrolling in the natural park.

Another clip shared by the Mayor of Sant’Angello, Piergiorgio Sagristani, shows the dolphins swimming in a pod in front of a boat and breaching the surface.

The mayor wrote: “The lack of human beings and the collateral negative damage is making nature revive. Let’s think about this and let it convince us that it is important to change our lifestyle so that it is compatible with all the things surrounding us”.

According to the latest figures from the Johns Hopkins University, Italy has registered 187,327 cases with COVID-19 and 25,085 deaths.

The natural park is a small protected marine area of 42 hectares of sea surrounding the island of Gaiola.