ITALY-CoVid19 Case Counts & News

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Cluster of cases-no travel history

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Lombardy cluster: Covid-19 coronavirus, in Milan, infected 38 year old now hospitalized - no travel history - 6 cases

A 38-year-old Italian tested positive for the coronavirus test. Counter-analyzes are underway by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The man is hospitalized in intensive care at the Codogno hospital whose access to the emergency room and whose scheduled activities , as a precautionary measure, they are currently interrupted. People who have been in contact with the patient are being identified and subjected to specific checks and necessary measures '.

This was communicated by the Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera. According to initial information, the 38-year-old was not recently in China but had contacts with other Italians who returned from China.

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Coronavirus, the number of infections rises to six: the first are a 38-year-old from Codogno, his wife and a friend. In isolation 250 people
https://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/21/news/coronavirus_a_milano_contaggiato_38enne_e_un_italiano_ricoverato_a_codogno-249121707/?ref=RHPPLF-BH-I249121710-C8-P2-S1.8-T1

A 38-year-old Italian tested positive for the coronavirus test. Counter-analyzes are underway by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The man is hospitalized in intensive care at Codogno hospital whose access to the emergency room and whose scheduled activities, at a precautionary level, are currently interrupted. People who have been in contact with the patient are being identified and subjected to specific checks and necessary measures. 'The man is in a reserved prognosis, with respiratory failure and his conditions are considered very serious. He is trying to reconstruct how he contracted the virus: as far as we know, the 38-year-old would have gone to dinner with a friend who was returning from China at the end of January, communicating the news of the infection to the councilor for Welfare of Lombardy Giulio Gallera.

'A 38-year-old Italian tested positive for the coronavirus test. Counter-analyzes are underway by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità. The man is hospitalized in intensive care at the Codogno hospital whose access to the emergency room and whose scheduled activities , as a precautionary measure, they are currently interrupted. People who have been in contact with the patient are being identified and subjected to specific checks and necessary measures '. The man is in a reserved prognosis, with respiratory insufficiency and his conditions are considered very serious. We are trying to reconstruct how he contracted the virus: as far as we know, the 38-year-old would have gone to dinner with a friend who was returning from China in late January. The Lombardy Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera communicated the news of the infection.



The man showed up on Thursday in the emergency room of the Codogno hospital in the Lodi area. At the moment the health authorities are reconstructing its movements. Access to the Codogno emergency room and scheduled activities, at a precautionary level, are currently interrupted. People who have been in contact with the patient are being identified and subjected to specific checks and necessary measures.

The health authorities are looking for a way to transport it to the Sacco hospital in Milan - identified with the Spallanzani of Rome as the one suitable for treating these cases - with an ambulance with a high bio-containment such as that used for the 17-year-old boy who returned from China but tested negative for Coronavirus.

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Patient zero returned from China
https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-milano-all-ospedale-sacco-possibile-paziente-zero-tornato-cina-f4062ae6-547c-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml


The friend who had returned from China was traced and may have infected the 38-year-old from Codogno. The conditional is a must, because the dates do not coincide. The man is currently in solitary confinement at the Sacco hospital in Milan, where the necessary examinations are being carried out. He is a manager who works in a Fiorenzuola d’Arda company, and who normally spends most of the year in China, with limited periods in Italy. He returned from China between January 20 and 21, but he has always been well (and still is healthy), except February 10, when he had mild flu symptoms. This is why it is still not clear that he was the 'patient zero', above all because too much time has passed.

Italian community is being asked "to stay at home and avoid social contacts" ... NOT even go to hospital!!

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Coronavirus, Castiglione d'Adda and Codogno in solitary confinement: «Do not leave the house, do not go to the emergency room»
https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_21/coronavirus-castiglione-d-adda-codogno-isolamento-non-uscite-casa-non-andate-pronto-soccorso-4b0597ee-548e-11ea-9196-da7d305401b7.shtml

The Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region Gallera: "All citizens of Castiglione d'Adda and Codogno are invited, as a precaution, to stay in the home and avoid social contacts"

The Councilor for Welfare of the Lombardy Region Giulio Gallera asked the citizens of Castiglione d'Adda and Codogno to " stay in the home environment ", to " avoid social contacts " and not to go to the emergency room in case of suspicion of have contracted the disease.

The request came after confirmation that in Lombardy there are at least three cases of Coronavirus : a 38-year-old man (hospitalized in Codogno), his wife and a friend (both hospitalized in the Sacco hospital in Milan). Another man, the suspect "zero patient" who may have infected the 38-year-old , is hospitalized in Sacco, and investigations are underway about his state of health.

«Two other people residing in Castiglione D'Adda tested positive for the Coronavirus test. They are the wife of the 38 year old in intensive care and a close acquaintance. The two patients are currently in isolation, "said Gallera.

«As a precaution, all citizens of Castiglione d'Adda and Codogno are invited to stay at home and avoid social contacts. For those who experience flu symptoms or respiratory problems, the peremptory indication is not to go to the emergency room but to contact directly the number 112 which will evaluate each situation and activate specific routes for transport to the healthcare facilities or to eventually carry out the necessary tests. home".

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Coronavirus: Six people infected in Lombardy (4)
http://www.ansa.it/english/newswire/english_service/2020/02/21/coronavirus-six-people-infected-in-lombardy-4_4d8c8975-04ba-422d-976a-e397861f3792.html

Residents ordered to stay in 3 towns at Lodi,Conte says no panic

Redazione ANSA Rome
21 February 202015:37

(ANSA) - Rome, February 21 - The first six people have been infected with the coronavirus in Italy, all in Lombardy, regional health councillor Giulio Gallera said Friday.
They are all about 40.

Gallera urged people to stay at home and avoid social contact.

He said some 250 people had been placed in isolation and would be tested for the deadly virus.

All six are in serious condition, Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana said.

Welfare official Maria Gramegna said authorities were trying to establish whether a second batch of three cases were linked to an initial trio in Lodi.

"We are investigating," she said, "they are three people who presented with a clinical picture of pneumonia at the hospital at Codogno, we're trying to understand if there were contacts with the first three cases"... continued---

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Six coronavirus cases discovered in north Italy, hundreds to be tested
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/six-coronavirus-cases-discovered-in-north-italy-hundreds-to-be-tested-idUSKBN20F0UI?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29&&rpc=401

MILAN (Reuters) - Six people have tested positive in Italy for coronavirus, the northern Lombardy region said on Friday, in the first known cases of local transmission of the potentially deadly illness in the country.

Officials told residents from three small towns some 60 km (40 miles) southeast of Italy’s financial capital Milan, to stay at home as doctors tested hundreds of people who might have come into contact with the six coronavirus sufferers. ---CONTINUED---

This is escalating VERY rapidly:-10 towns in lockdown!

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10 Italian towns in lockdown over coronavirus fears
https://www.afp.com/en/news/3954/10-italian-towns-lockdown-over-coronavirus-fears-doc-1p70i54

AFP / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV"Everything is under control", said Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, stressing that the government was maintaining "an extremely high level of precaution" against the virus

Authorities in northern Italy on Friday ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases.

Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting the same bar and group of friends, with two other cases in Veneto, authorities said at a press conference.

Over 50,000 people have been asked to stay at home in the areas concerned, while all public activities such as carnival celebrations, church masses and sporting events have been banned for up to a week.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said "everything is under control", and stressed the government was maintaining "an extremely high level of precaution".

Streets in the towns were deserted ... continued

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Coronavirus, there is the first death in Italy: it is one of the two infected in Veneto
https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/coronavirus-ce-il-primo-morto-in-italia-e-uno-dei-due-contagiati-in-veneto/

A 77-year-old man from Monselice, in the province of Padua, died of Coronavirus. It is one of two infected patients hospitalized in the Venetian city. Confirmation came from the governor of the region, Luca Zaia, according to local sources, the victim was called Adriano Trevisan and was the father of the former mayor of Vo '.

continua su

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Second italian victim
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/22/news/coronavirus_in_italia_i_19_sbarcati_dalla_diamond_princess_in_giappone-249225700/?ref=RHPPTP-BH-I249215369-C12-P1-S1.12-T1

The coronavirus makes another victim in Italy, after the man who died last night in Veneto. According to health sources cited by the Ansa, this is a woman residing in Lombardy who could be connected to the cases of Codogno. The woman had been hospitalized and was waiting for the result of the swab that would come after her death.

Meanwhile, there are two new cases in Northern Italy, one in Dolo, in the Veneto region, and one in Cremona in Lombardy. In Veneto, after the two men, including one who died yesterday night, there is a person who tested positive for the test in Dolo, in the Venetian region, and is hospitalized in intensive care. The investigations were made by the regional reference center of Padua. As usual, the sample was sent to Spallanzani in Rome for confirmation.

In Lombardy, the mayor of Sesto Cremonese has communicated that there is an infected person in the municipality, the cases would now be 25 in the region, where ten municipalities in the Lodi area are isolated and 250 people in quarantine have been in contact with the infected. Schools closed in Cremona and public demonstrations suspended, the mayor invited residents to stay at home.

Meanwhile, sources from the Veneto Region inform that the 67-year-old man from Vò Euganeo, who until yesterday was the second case of coronavirus infection in Veneto, is in stationary conditions. The friend with whom, for reasons still unknown, he shared the infection, Adriano Trevisan, 78, was the first deceased in Italy. Both were hospitalized in the Schiavonia hospital, in the province of Padua,

The President of the Region, Zaia, wrote on social media that 'During the night the Civil Protection of the Veneto mounted as a precaution 12 tents for a maximum of 96 places outside the hospital of Schiavonia (Padua), available to health workers and medical staff'. The intervention is part of the isolation operations of the Padua area where the infection has developed.

===RELATED===

Second Coronavirus Death Sparks Fears, Lockdown In Italian Towns
https://www.ibtimes.com/second-coronavirus-death-sparks-fears-lockdown-italian-towns-2927004

Two deaths from the new coronavirus sparked fears throughout northern Italy on Saturday, as towns shuttered shops and schools to try to halt a rise in new infections.

The death of a 75-year-old woman on Saturday near the small town of Codogno in Lombardy came one day after a 78-year-old man succumbed to the virus in the neighbouring region of Veneto, marking the first in Italy and Europe. ---CONTINUED---

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Coronavirus test results at Schiavonia hospital
https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/padova/coronavirus_veneto_schiavonia_ultime_notizie-5068064.html?fbclid=IwAR0OFg3_QsF94epJ9uyNRnPlGoGAvlabnFHpIx-z77-PgD0yaqI09ac4o84

The first 200 tests for Coronavirus carried out at the hospital of Schiaìvonia (Padua), the structure of the province of Padua where the first two cases of Coronavirus in Veneto were recorded and where the first patient died, would have been negative. The hospital is surrounded by a 'sanitary cordon', with Carabinieri, workers of the Red Cross and Civil Protection. Cardiology chief Giampaolo Pasquetto arrived outside the hospital for a few minutes and reported the results of the swabs 'as far as I have been able to know from my colleagues so far,' he said. The modern structure is located between the towns of Este and Monselice and was recently inaugurated to serve the Euganean Hills area.

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Coronavirus: seven cases in Veneto, two doctors infected in the Pavia area
https://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/cronaca/coronavirus-sette-casi-in-veneto-due-medici-contagiati-nel-pavese_15157080-202002a.shtml

'Seven cases of people tested positive for coronavirus tests in Veneto have reached seven'. The governor Luca Zaia said so. 'The seven cases are all of Vo 'Euganeo, including two relatives of the deceased'. In Lombardy among the infected there are two doctors, husband and wife, from Pieve Porto Morone (Pavia), a town in the Bassa near the province of Lodi. The woman is a pediatrician who works in the Codogno area.

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Coronavirus, patient zero here from Shanghai: 'Wake up in the middle of the night'
https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/cronache/coronavirus-parla-padre-paziente-zero-sempre-stato-bene-1830461.html

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The friend who may have infected him - the so-called 'patient zero' - was later tracked down and is now in solitary confinement at the Sacco hospital in Milan, where he has undergone the necessary tests. As reported by Corriere della Sera, the 41-year-old man's father reconstructed the whole story: 'They woke us up in the middle of the night. An ambulance arrived at half past two and the doctor swabbed us, then they gave Donato (a name invented to avoid actions of hunting the greaser, ed.) a mask and took it away '. He was also subjected to blood tests later and tested negative, as did parents who now feel more relieved. 'But finding yourself all of a sudden at the center of this story is not a good experience,' says the gentleman.

The manager may have been the vehicle of the virus, although it should be stressed that no tests have confirmed it so far. The 80-year-old interviewed has two other daughters and a grandson: the husband of one of his daughters, on the other hand, tested positive for the test. So the first medical hypothesis could be confirmed: he was infected with the virus but he also recovered.

The stages

The man works for the Mae company in Fiorenzuola d'Arda (Piacenza), which deals with plastic and carbon fiber, where he 'manages two factories in Shanghai'. He has lived permanently in Shanghai for 7 years now: 'Three or four times a year he visits us in Italy, in this house where he was born and raised, and stays with us for ten days. This time he was unable to come to the Christmas holidays and then he joined us later. ' He returned on January 21 with an Air China flight: this time too he had to stay a few days but 'he has not been able to leave again, given the situation that has arisen in China. This month, since he arrived in Italy, sometimes we commented on the news about the virus, but he has always been fine, we certainly didn't expect the scene the other night

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Coronavirus, a woman who died in Lombardy: she met 'patient 1' in the Codogno hospital
https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/20_febbraio_22/coronavirus-donna-morta-lombardia-aveva-incrociato-paziente-1-ospedale-codogno-9a8bd436-555b-11ea-8418-2150c9ca483e.shtml

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The coronavirus made the first victim in Lombardy: it is a 75-year-old woman. She had gone to the emergency room of the Codogno hospital, in the Lodi area, for a respiratory crisis, just on the days when the so-called 'patient one', the 38-year-old first found 'positive' to the virus, was also visited. An intersection in all probability was fatal to the pensioner: it would be, in fact, the source of the infection.

The 75-year-old, after being visited by the doctors, had returned home, where her condition had then worsened, to precipitate in the last hours: the woman went off to her home and the confirmation of the infection came after her death: the analyzes in fact, they were performed on the body after death. Meanwhile, the number of infections has increased in the region, where the first Italian outbreak was discovered on Friday: the number of cases ascertained now has risen to 32. The virus has also arrived in the Cremona and Pavia area.

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Coronavirus, 51 cases between Lombardy and Veneto
https://www.ilgazzettino.it/italia/primopiano/coronavirus_contagio_diretta_cosa_succede_veneto_italia_ultime_notizie_oggi-5068031.html

A new case of coronavirus positivity was also recorded in Cremona in Lombardy. According to what is learned from health sources, the new positive virus is a patient hospitalized for a few days in the Cremona hospital. The number of patients tested positive for the Corovinarus test and resident between Lombardy and Veneto has risen to 51. Twenty-seven of these live in Lombardy, while two are the cases ascertained in Veneto, to which the elderly from Vò Euganeo who died yesterday evening was added.

FOCOLAIO NEL LODIGIANO
The number of people infected by Coronavirus in Lombardy rose to 39: the president of the Region Attilio Fontana explained this at a press conference, underlining that they "all occurred" in the same area south of Lodi. There are 12, however, currently infected by Coronavirus in Veneto: the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana has always stressed this.

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No patient zero for the coronavirus outbreak in Lombardy (official)
https://www.zonebourse.com/UNILEVER-PLC-174853/actualite/Pas-de-patient-zero-pour-le-foyer-de-coronavirus-en-Lombardie-officiel-30049126/

02/22/2020 | 9:49 p.m.

ROME (awp / afp) - The person hitherto considered to be at the origin of around fifty cases of contamination with the new coronavirus in Lombardy (northern Italy) cannot be the zero patient, originally of the epidemic, assured Saturday the vice-minister of Health.

"On the basis of the tests carried out, he did not develop the antibodies," said deputy minister Pierpaolo Sileri.

Since the announcement Friday of this first case quickly followed by dozens of others around the city of Codogno where Mattia, 38, was hospitalized, the media had given the hypothesis that he could have been infected by a friend who returned in January from China.

It was this friend who had initially been considered a possible "patient zero". Mattia, part of the American multinational Unilever, had dinner with him several times.

Placed in intensive care and intubated, he was transferred Saturday from Codogno to a larger hospital in Pavia.

Italy was Friday the first European country to deplore the death of one of its nationals, a 78-year-old mason died in Veneto, followed on Saturday by a 77-year-old resident of a village near Codogno, from the start of the viral pneumonia epidemic in China in December.

The peninsula is also the European country with the most cases with at least sixty people tested positive for the new coronavirus including 46 in Lombardy and 12 in Veneto as well as one case in Turin, a person who had run a marathon with the framework from Codogno.

A dozen cities have been placed in semi-containment (public places are closed, except a few essential stores and pharmacies on duty) with more than 50,000 people asked to stay at home and avoid closed places.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met with civil protection all day and then organized an extraordinary council of ministers.

New measures to contain the epidemic are expected, including the quarantine of people deemed at risk in military structures in Lombardy.

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Coronavirus Covid-19: we explain why the two deaths in Italy worry so much
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/coronavirus-covid-19-on-vous-explique-pourquoi-les-deux-deces-en-italie-inquietent-autant_3836835.html

Italy is the first European country to register fatal cases of coronavirus among its nationals. The authorities have put in place strong measures to contain the contagion.

Franceinformations
France Televisions
Updated on 02/22/2020 | 5:34 p.m.
published on 02/22/2020 | 3:39 p.m.

Concern is mounting in Italy after the death, a few hours apart, of two patients affected by the coronavirus Covid-19. The first victim, a 78-year-old retiree, died of the virus in Veneto on Friday, February 21. The second, a woman in her seventies, died in Lombardy on the night of Friday to Saturday.

Italy is the first European country to register fatal cases of coronavirus among its nationals. Franceinfo will explain to you why the Italian authorities are taking the matter very seriously.

Because the number of cases keeps increasing

In total, Italy now has around 40 cases of Covid-19 coronavirus contamination. At least 39 have been identified in Lombardy, around Codogno, about sixty kilometers from Milan. Eleven others have been discovered in Veneto, the neighboring region. They are in addition to the first three cases treated in Rome, according to Sky Italia television, among which two Chinese tourists placed for a time in intensive care but whose condition has improved significantly in recent days.

About 250 people including 70 doctors and nursing assistants have been placed in solitary confinement, the time to submit them to tests, after having been in contact with the cases of Lombardy. In addition, an Italian infected with the new coronavirus and who was on the cruise ship Diamond Princess in Japan was repatriated on Saturday morning with around thirty Italian passengers who were placed in quarantine.

Because drastic measures have been taken

This sudden wave of contamination forced the Italian authorities to take drastic semi-containment measures for a week in ten cities in Lombardy. The 50,000 inhabitants of the area are called upon to stay at home as much as possible, and to avoid enclosed spaces. Schools, administrations and bars have been closed. The measure also affects libraries, town halls, many shops. Even the carnival parades have been canceled. A drone filmed the ghost streets of Codogno, a city of 15,000, on Friday evening.

[video=youtube;HGOYd4QjDXk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=HGOYd4QjDXk&feature=emb_logo[/video]

Schools were also closed on Saturday in the big city of Cremona. Trains were stopped at Milan and Lecce stations in Puglia on Friday evening to drop passengers with flu-like symptoms. The head of government Giuseppe Conte called a special meeting on Saturday with the civil protection, stressing that the executive was planning to take other "extraordinary measures".

Because the origin of the contagion is not certain

An outbreak seems to have been identified in Codogno, about sixty kilometers from Milan, in Lombardy. The first case discovered in this city, an Italian researcher at Unilever, is hospitalized in intensive care in a serious condition. His eight-month pregnant wife, a friend and three elderly people who frequented the bar of his friend's father are among those infected.

Health officials have not identified with certainty the source of the contagion, but it could be an Italian who returned from China in January who allegedly had dinner with the researcher several times. The septuagenarian who died on the night of Friday to Saturday lived in Casalpusterlengo, not far from Codogno.

In Veneto, Adriano Trevisan, who died Friday while being treated in Padua, was however not in contact with a known patient and this retired mason had never set foot in China. He had been hospitalized about ten days ago for other conditions, before being tested positive for the new coronavirus. This is also the case for the woman who died in Codogno.

Because the WHO is also alarmed

If fear grips Europe, it is also because the World Health Organization is worried about the difficulty of halting the spread of the virus. WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded the alarm on Friday in Geneva. "We are still in a phase where it is possible to contain the epidemic," he said, but the "shooting window is narrowing". He thus deplored the lack of international financial support.

Coronavirus Live Updates: Italy Confirms 3rd Death
https://www.ntd.com/coronavirus-live-updates-situation-in-south-korea-grave-as-confirmed-cases-surpass-500_437855.html

Italy confirmed the third coronavirus death on Sunday, identifying the case as an elderly cancer patient.

The elderly woman was stricken in Crema, located in Lombardy, where most cases have been reported in the country, said Italian officials. ---CONTINUED---

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https://www.oe24.at/welt/Coronavirus-Drei-Tote-152-Infizierte-in-Italien/418590532

4,000 tests carried out across the country - Milan Cathedral closed.
Rome. Three deaths and 152 infected people is the preliminary record of the coronavirus epidemic in northern Italy. Italy's chief of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli, reported in Rome on Sunday that 110 cases had been reported in the Lombardy region, particularly in the Lodi province. There were a further 21 cases in Veneto, another nine in Emilia Romagna. Piedmont was also affected.

This puts Italy in third place worldwide, and in Europe even number one in the list of countries with the most coronavirus diseases. 55 infected people were hospitalized, 25 of whom are in the intensive care unit. 4,000 tests were carried out nationwide.

...snip
~There are also unconfirmed twitter reports of a train from Italy to Austria being stopped at the border.

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https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Zug-mit-2-Coronavirus-Verdachtsfaellen-an-Oesterreichs-Grenze-gestoppt/418513945

Train stopped with two suspected coronavirus cases at the Austrian border!

oe24-EXKLUSIV: According to information from security circles, a train with two suspected coronavirus cases was stopped on board at the Tyrolean Brenner border.
Tyrol . As AUSTRIA just learned from security circles, a train coming from Italy was stopped at the Brenner border. There were two people with fever on board who were suspected of being infected with the corona virus. The State Medical Directorate confirmed to oe24 that there was a "corresponding incident".

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https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/02/23/coronavirus-diretta-terza-vittima-a-crema-era-in-oncologia-sono-152-i-contagi-positivo-medico-del-policlinico-di-milano-lombardia-chiusi-i-luoghi-di-svago-dalle-ore-18-niente-scuola-e-univers/5714612/

Coronavirus, direct - Third victim in Crema, was in oncology. There are 152 infections, positive doctor of the Polyclinic of Milan. Lombardy: entertainment venues closed from 6 pm. No school or university in Northern Italy

by FQ | FEBRUARY 23 2020

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Closed schools , as well as universities and museums. All public events and cultural, recreational, sporting and religious events have been canceled , including the Carnival in Venice and Ivrea , but also four Serie A football matches . The whole of Northern Italy stops to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus , after the measures already taken by the government and in force in the Lodi area and in Vò Euganeo, currently the two 'red' areas of the outbreak of the epidemic from which it is no longer possible to enter and go out: “I signed the implementing decree that orders these measures for the next 14 days“, Confirmed Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte .

On Sunday, the coronavirus made the third victim in Italy: an elderly woman hospitalized in the hospital of Crema in the oncology department. "He had a very compromised situation ," explained the Lombardy Region Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera at a press conference . Which also provided updated data on the number of people infected in Lombardy, which rose to 112 cases . It means that the number of coronavirus positive people in Italy has exceeded 150 : another 25 in Veneto, 9 in Emilia Romagna and 3 in Piedmont . To these must be added the two Chinese touristsadmitted to Spallanzani for weeks. In Milan, a third case: a doctor from the Policlinico hospital who had been hospitalized for one week with pneumonia in the sack.

Conte: "Maximum precautionary line" - The infection spread to Trentino , where a Lombard family on holiday from Friday was found positive: the three people were transferred to a Lombard hospital. A 17-year-old resident of Valtellina who studies at the agricultural institute of Codogno and the 78-year-old man from Sesto San Giovanni who was hospitalized for a week at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan who were up to this morningwere also confirmed as positivedoubtful case. “I was surprised by this explosion of cases, which have been kept under control until recently. The maximum precautionary line paid off, although it would seem not. We must pursue this line, "explained Prime Minister Conte.

The measures in Lombardy - “ Bars , night clubs and any other entertainment exerciseopen to the public are closed from 18 to 6 ; measures will be defined to avoid gatherings in these premises ": this is what is read in the Lombardy Region ordinance, as regards the closure of commercial activities in the so-called yellow zone . The Lombard councilor Gallera specified that the measures, which also include the closure of all schools and public events - but for now not the shops - will be valid " for 7 daysbut they can also reach 14 to contain the spread of the virus and manage positive patients ". In the meantime, the Milan Cathedral has also been closed until Tuesday .

Stop activities of schools and universities in 7 Regions - All schools of all levels in Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna and Friuli Venezia Giulia closed for a week as a precaution. Stop to kindergartens and universities in Trentino Alto Adige . Universities stop in the same regions. In Lazio, the Bio-Medical Campus ordered the postponement of the admission test to the Degree Course in Medicine and Surgery scheduled for Tuesday 25 February. The MIUR confirms the order to suspend the trips in Italy and abroad.

The red zone in the Lodi area - Meanwhile, the ban on the removal and entry into the areas ofthe virus " outbreak "is already in force, manned by police forces with checkpoints along the roads of the Lodi area: criminal penalties are providedfor those who violate the requirements. Stop to school trips in Italy and abroad , suspension of all public events in the affected Regions - including Serie A matches -, quarantine with “ active surveillance”For all those who have been in contact with confirmed cases of the virus. And again, closing of shops and museums , stops at competitions , private work activities and public offices , without prejudice to essential services , limitation on the movement of goods and people.

The search for the patient zero - What still does not return concerns the identification of the " patient zero ": in fact the mapping of the infection continues but as confirmed by the head of the Civil Protection Angelo Borrelli the origin of the two outbreaks has not yet been identified, the Lombard one and the Venetian one. Certainly the contagion of Codogno did not start from the manager who returned from China on 21 January and then went to dinner with the 38-year-old from Codogno, the first infected in Lombardy. It cannot be he who brought the virus to Italy because he never had it: "From the tests carried out - said Deputy Minister of Health Pierpaolo Sileri - it emerged that it did not develop antibodies. "

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20.41 - Armani closes offices and offices for a week - Giorgio Armani has decided to close the Milan offices and production sites in Lombardy, Emilia Romagna, Veneto, Trentino and Piedmont for a week. The staff involved in the measure, taken to deal with the coronavirus emergency, will not be held on leave. Executives and function managers - they explain from the maison - will still have to guarantee availability and availability. Giorgio Armani today presented the collection of the line that bears his name with a parade behind closed doors. This choice was also taken by the Laura Biagiotti brand. A decision has not yet been made in Gucci, as has Versace, while Tod's has preferred to opt for smart working and travel restrictions for a few days.

20.15 - Positivity cases in Piedmont decrease from 6 to 3 - Coronavirus positivity cases in Piedmont have decreased from six to three. Further checks on Chinese patients led to the finding of negativity. This was reported by the governor Alberto Cirio.

20.08 - Doctor of the Polyclinic of Milan positive to the test - A doctor of the Policlinico hospital of Milan, admitted to the Sacco hospital for a week for pneumonia, tested positive for the Coronavirus test. This is what is learned from qualified sources. At the moment the health management is committed to reconstructing all the last moves and contacts of the doctor. Tomorrow afternoon at the Policlinico, as already scheduled, the department heads' meeting will take place, to evaluate the measures to be taken on the basis of the regional ordinance issued in the evening.

20.01 - Visco: "Virus could weigh more than 0.2%" - The impact of coronavirus on Italy's GDP could be over 0.2%. This was stated by the governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, in an interview with Bloomberg from Riad on the sidelines of the work of the G20.

19.46 - Stop all winter sports for a week - Winter sports suspended throughout Italy for the whole week. Fisi, which had already blocked the events in Lombardy and Veneto scheduled today for the coronavirus emergency, has decided in addition to extend the stop "to the entire national territory for the whole of next week, pending the completion of further measures that will be provided. by the same Council of Ministers ". Fisi announces that it is "keeping in close contact and updating with the relevant competent bodies". The national women's events of tomorrow's European Cup in Folgaria and the cdm stage in La Thuile are not part of the national calendar events: events of the international federation (FIS) currently confirmed.

19.32 - Liguria closes schools and museums - The Liguria Region has ordered the closure of schools and museums until March 1st starting from midnight on Monday. Public events or open to the public are suspended, educational trips and public competitions are suspended.

19.18 - Three new cases ascertained in Trentino - Three cases of coronavirus have also been ascertained in Trentino. The president of the Province Maurizio Fugatti has made it known explaining that it is a Lombard family who arrived on Friday in Trentino for a holiday and coming from one of the outbreak areas of the virus. The family resided in an apartment and the transfer to a Lombard hospital is already underway. The three accused fever between 37 and 38 degrees and tests revealed positivity to the virus. Spallanzani's counter-analyzes are awaited.

19.12 - The Carnival of Ivrea (Turin) is suspended - The Municipality established it with an order which - it is explained - follows the announcement by the governor Alberto Cirio of a stop order for "all cultural events and manifestations, games and sports, outdoors and indoors, which involve the gathering of people "in Piedmont. Today in Ivrea the traditional 'battle of the orange trees' took place, which was followed by thousands of people.

19.09 - Catalog: "We are preparing measures for workers" - "We are preparing a series of tools to protect workers in the areas concerned" from the Coronavirus emergency, from the "ordinary layoffs, to the wage integration fund or the CIG in derogation for the companies with less than 6 employees ". The Minister of Labor Nunzia Catalfo said at the end of the meeting with companies and unions, stating that the protections will also go "to non-residents who go to the affected areas" for work. The table will be "permanent to monitor the evolution of the situation". Next meeting on Tuesday.

18.49 - More than 78 thousand cases in the world and 2467 deaths - There are 78811 confirmed cases of coronavirus, of which 1017 in the last 24 hours, while the dead are 2467 (103 new). In China there are 77042 infections (650 new) and 2445 deaths (97 new). Outside China, there are 1,769 infections (367 new) in 28 countries and 17 deaths (6 new).

18.41 - The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella signed the Coronavirus decree

18.34 - Milan Cathedral closed - Milan Cathedral will be closed to the public "as a precaution" due to the coronavirus until at least February 25 "pending further and more detailed provisions from the competent authorities". The decision to close the Monumental Complex was made by the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo in concert with the Metropolitan Chapter.

18.27 - Borrelli: "There are 152 infections in Italy" - The number of Coronavirus positive in Italy continues to rise: at the moment - according to the data provided by Commissioner Angelo Borrelli - there are 152 throughout Italy, including the three victims: the woman died today in Crema, the 77 year old from Vò Euganeo and a woman from Casalpusterlengo.

17.54 - Government allocated another 20 million for the emergency - The government allocates another 20 million to face the coronavirus emergency. "To cope with the charges deriving from the state of health emergency - reads article 4 of the decree approved by the CDM - the budget has increased by € 20 million for the year 2020 from the National Emergency Fund". The 20 million was recovered from the fund prepared for the lottery prizes of the receipts.

17.41 - "Measures in Lombardy valid 7 days but extendable to 14" - The measures decided by the Lombardy Region as the closure of schools will be valid "for 7 days but can reach 14". This is what the Lombard Councilor for Welfare Giulio Gallera said. "They have been adopted for 7 days but can be extended to 14 to limit the spread of the virus and manage positive patients."

17.40 - Closed pubs and discos from 6 pm in Lombardy - "We have closed the commercial entertainment or leisure places from 6 pm, not the restaurants, therefore pubs and discos, places where there are many people". This was stated by the Lombard Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera.

17.32 - Councilor Gallera: "A dead man in Cremona, he was an oncological patient" - "We have another death in Lombardy, in Cremona, a woman who was hospitalized in oncology with a very compromised situation and also had coronavirus". This was explained by the Lombard Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera.

17.31 - Councilor Gallera: "112 cases in Lombardy, 53 in hospital and 17 in intensive care" - "We have made more than 880 tampons, 112 are the positive cases , with an average of 12%. Of the 53 hospitalized, 17 are in intensive care ". This was explained by the Lombard Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera. Among the certain cases, he continued, there are "3 in Bergamo, 14 in Cremona, 49 in Lodi, one Monza, two cases on Milan province and two in Sondrio".

17.28 - Fourth infected in the province of Pavia - The fourth case of coronavirus positive patient in the province of Pavia has been recorded. After the couple of doctors from Pieve Porto Morone (Pavia) and a 78-year-old pensioner from Santa Cristina and Bissone (Pavia), 58-year-old man from Garlasco (Pavia) contracted the virus. After passing through the emergency room of the Vigevano hospital (Pavia), he was transferred to the infectious disease department of San Matteo di Pavia, where several other patients (including the other three Pavia) are hospitalized.

17.07 - Schools also closed in Emilia-Romagna until March 1st - Suspension of the activities of schools of all levels, kindergartens, universities, demonstrations and events and all forms of aggregation in public or private places, trips education and competitions. These are the measures adopted in Emilia-Romagna to combat the spread of Coronavirus, valid until next March 1st inclusive. They are foreseen in the order signed by the President Stefano Bonaccini and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza.

17.03 - Count: "Implementing decree signed, measures for 14 days" - "I have just signed the implementing decree that orders these measures for the next 14 days". This was said by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in connection with 'Domenica In', underlining that this is the provision for making the measures decided by the CDM operational. "We ask for sacrifices to citizens, who will have to undergo personal restrictions - he added - but we pay them back with the assistance and the utmost attention for their health".

17.01 - Blocks on the roads of the Lodi area start - Filtering procedures start on the access roads to the red area of ​​the Lodi area. Law enforcement officers are warning motorists that once they enter, they will no longer be able to leave. The blockages at the entrances of the ten municipalities, as required by government regulations, will start in a few minutes.

16.57 - Conte: "In the face of health there is no political color" - "Yesterday there was confirmation that in the face of the emergency there is no distinction between majority and opposition: we suspended the meeting of the Council of Ministers and I informed the opposition leaders about the steps we were taking. In the face of citizens' health there must be no distinction between political colors ”. This was said by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in connection with the program 'In Mezzora in più' on Rai 3.

16.53 - Conte: "4 thousand tests have already been done with the pad" - "We have already done 4 thousand checks with the pad. We are the first country in Europe that has decided on more rigorous and accurate controls and from the beginning we have opted for the maximum precaution and rigor line ". This was said by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in connection with 'In Mezzora in più'. As for the fact that Italy is the European country with the highest number of infections, Conte stressed that "it cannot be excluded that in other countries, in the face of as many rigorous controls, the numbers may increase there too".

16.45 - Conte: "Pursuing the utmost precaution" - "We work in connection with the Northern governors and ministers, constantly updated. I was surprised by this explosion of cases, which have been kept under control until recently. The maximum precautionary line paid off, although it would seem not. We must pursue the line of utmost precaution. We are trying to identify and limit outbreaks, we will do everything possible to contain the infection ". This was said by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in connection with the program 'In Mezzora in più' on Rai 3.

16.33 - About 500 agents of the armed forces to guard outbreak areas - About 500 men and women of the police and armed forces will be sent to Lombardy and Veneto to supervise access to the coronavirus outbreak areas and who must remain isolated . The staff will be integrated with those already present in the area and will be coordinated locally by the prefects, who will also have the task of indicating the 'rules of engagement for men committed to enforcing the provisions contained in the decree of the Council of Ministers.

16.10 - Four cases confirmed in the province of Bergamo - There are 4 cases of coronavirus in the Bergamo area, where the emergency room of the Alzano Lombardo hospital was closed in the afternoon, where two cases were recorded (a patient and a nurse). The emergency room is in solitary confinement and is considering whether to close the entire hospital. The other two cases were registered in Seriate and Bergamo.

15.30 - San Raffaele Hospital closes some wards to the public -Stop visits by relatives and friends to patients hospitalized in the intensive care and neurosurgery wards at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan. It is one of the measures taken and published today by the facility, where a man from Sesto San Giovanni is found hospitalized and tested positive for the Sars-Cov-2 virus. According to the provisions of the Lombardy Regional Welfare Directorate, San Raffaele has decided that visits to the departments, it is said, are possible only at the times indicated on the structure's website and one visitor at a time. For some departments, greater restrictions were decided, such as stopping visitors for intensive care and neurosurgery. It was also decided that the surgical activity in election could undergo changes, of which the people concerned will be informed directly. The Monza hospital was also armored, where the patient of Crema tested positive for coronavirus is hospitalized. The intensive care unit and other associates were closed at the entrance to the public, pending further checks.

15.13 - New case ascertained in the Bergamo area - A person tested positive for the coronavirus in the Bergamo area and an emergency summit was immediately summoned to the Prefecture in Bergamo.

15.10 - Piedmont, 6 cases between Turin and Cuneo, including three Chinese - The six cases of contagion from Coronavirus ascertained in Piedmont are three in the province of Cuneo and three cases, including that of yesterday, in the province of Turin. This was confirmed by the president of Piedmont, Alberto Cirio, on the occasion of the meeting of the crisis unit in the regional civil protection headquarters, specifying that the three of Cuneo are of Chinese nationality, the three of the province of Turin of Italian nationality . "The three Chinese citizens - Cirio then specified - arrived from China on the 19th of this month and we are working assiduously with the regional health hygiene services those who have been the contacts they have or may have had". At the moment, the girl visited at Regina Margherita and whose parents have, on the other hand, tested positive is not positive. “We are doing all the analyzes and verifications to identify and isolate the contagion strainand we are in close relationship with the Prime Minister and with the other regions of Italy, "added Cirio, confirming shortly the signing of an order, consistent with that of Lombardy, Veneto, Friuli and Emilia Romagna, which establishes the closure "At least for the whole next week" of every school of order and grade. "Together with this - continued Cirio - we will proceed to suspend, and therefore not to authorize, every event and every cultural, recreational and sporting event that has the possibility of gathering people, both in places open to the public and in clubs. closed".

15.02 - Closed shopping centers in Sesto San Giovanni -Two shopping centers in Sesto San Giovanni were also closed after a 78-year-old elderly man residing in the city on the outskirts of Milan tested positive for the coronavirus. This is what was decided by the mayor Roberto Di Stefano who signed the ordinance "which issues drastic containment measures for the city". In addition to the suspension of activities in schools and the cancellation of all the events scheduled in the city, “all municipal services are suspended with the exception of the following essential services: marital status and electoral service; hygiene, health and care activities; protection of personal freedom and public safety; production and distribution of energy and basic necessities; waste collection and disposal; staff services ".
“I thought it important - Di Stefano explains - to guarantee drastic and incisive measures to protect the public health and safety of the citizens of Sesto. With seriousness and commitment, and without unnecessary alarmism, we continue to collaborate with the Lombardy Region, with the health authorities and with all the bodies concerned "

15.00 - Mayor Codogno: "We await government indications" - "We are waiting for the government to publish the decree announced 14 hours ago. What is currently in force is the Speranza-Fontana directive, so there are no blocks but only patrols on the street ”. This was explained by Francesco Passerini, mayor of Codogno (Lodi), contacted by telephone by the Ansa. "We are continuing as yesterday - he adds - because we have not yet had precise indications".

14.55 - Masses suspended throughout Lombardy - All religious services throughout Lombardy have been suspended and the speakers have been closed. So the dioceses have implemented the ordinance of the Lombardy Region for the coronavirus emergency.

14.50 - La Scala and Il Piccolo Theater in Milan suspend performances - The Scala Theater has decided to suspend "all performances as a precaution pending provisions". The same decision was also made by Il Piccolo Teatro, in line with the order signed by the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana with the minister of health Roberto Speranza. The Pinacoteca di Brera was open this morning, but visitors were invited to leave as soon as the regional ordinance arrived.

14.45 - Epidemiologist: "In Italy we are third generation cases" - "It is presumable that the new coronavirus SarsCoV2 began to circulate in Italy towards the end of January, when the alert was still not at its maximum and the flights were not blocked : various subjects will have taken the infection, perhaps without realizing it. So what we are seeing now is already the third generation of cases. " This is the analysis done at Ansa by Pier Luigi Lopalco, professor of Hygiene at the University of Pisa. The number of cases in fact, he explains, " would double about every 7 days and this would explain the current number of cases in Italy".

14.40 - 24h police patrols in 35 gates in the red area of ​​Lodigiano - The police patrols will guard 24 gates access to the red area in the Lodi area 24 hours a day, which includes the territory of 10 municipalities, and 8 gates to enter the territory of Vò Euganeo. The belt plan for the areas identified as an outbreak by the spread of the coronavirus was defined this morning at the Public Security Department chaired by the police chief Franco Gabrielli, in constant contact with the prefects of Lodi and Padua.

14:15 - Zaia: "The case of the infected couple from Venice worries us" - "The case of the two octogenarians hospitalized in the civil hospital of Venice in intensive care worries us a lot". The Governor of Veneto said this about the two elderly people hospitalized in the lagoon capital because they are affected by Coronavirus. "They have had no contact with the Chinese community - he added - we are reconstructing their history and proceeding, as per protocol, in concentric phases to trace the contacts they had".

14.00 - Schools also closed in Piedmont - Piedmontese schools of all levels will be closed one week from Monday. This is what would emerge from the meeting of the task force on coronavirus at the Piedmontese civil protection headquarters in Turin.

13.55 - Stable 40-year-old hospitalized in Turin - The 40-year-old infected with coronavirus and hospitalized in Turin "is in stable condition". This is learned from the director of the clinic of infectious diseases of the Amedeo di Savoia hospital in Turin Giovanni Di Perri. It is an extension of the Lombard epidemic, following contacts with people infected in Lombardy. Testing on family members of man is underway.

13.50 - 17-year-old Valtellina transferred to hospital in Lecco - It was decided to transfer the 17-year-old Valtellinese who tested positive for coronavirus from his home to the Manzoni hospital in Lecco. At the moment the boy has no more fever, is well and appears to be recovering. Meanwhile, Ats della Montagna has promoted a meeting to arrange and take on the necessary clinical checks for other peers of the infected minor, all students residing in neighboring countries and also attending the Tosi di Agraria institute in Lodi

13.40 - Zaia: "Canceled Venice Carnival" - "We signed with Minister Speranza the order with which all public and private events are blocked, including the Venice Carnival, the closure of schools and museums until the first of March". The president of Veneto, Luca Zaia, said during the crisis unit in Marghera, stressing that "fairs and museums" will also be closed. "The ordinance is effective immediately and will come into effect from midnight," he added. In Veneto, "disinfection of all public transport" has been ordered, including "local and non-local trains, an aspect of which I have already spoken also with Trenitalia" and water buses in the city of Venice.

13.30 - "Vo 'Euganeo will be isolated" - "There have been quite clear indications to completely armor Vò Euganeo both at the entrance and at the exit, so nobody can exit and the area will be completely isolated". This was stated by Marcello Bano, vice-president of the Province of Padua, on the sidelines of the coronavirus meeting taking place in the prefecture in Padua.

13.20 - University of Genoa also suspends activities - To prevent the risk of contagion from coronavirus, the University of Genoa "has cautiously decided to suspend all teaching activities (lessons and exams) for a week starting tomorrow, Monday 24 February". The rector of the Paolo Comanducci University announced this morning.

13.15 - Gallera: "We are evaluating the closing of stores in Lombardy" - "We are going to evaluate these aspects": thus the Lombard Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera replied to SkyTg24 to a question on the possible closure of the stores in Lombardy. Gallera then explained that there may be other measures in addition to the suspension of "the whole school and entertainment sector" already decided by the Region.

13.05 - Universities in Piedmont closed - Didactic activities in Piedmont universities are suspended for a week due to the Coronavirus issue. This was announced by the regional health councilor, Luigi Icardi.

12.45 - All schools in Lombardy - Lombardy Region closed , in relation to the evolution of the spread of Coronavirus, an Ordinance is being prepared, signed by President Attilio Fontana in consultation with the minister of health Roberto Speranza, valid for the whole Lombardy region. The document, as soon as it is issued, will be sent to all the prefects of the Lombard provinces for timely communication to the mayors. The order will be effective until a new order is made. The measures envisaged include: the suspension of events or initiatives of any nature, of events and of any form of meeting in public or private places, also of a cultural, recreational, sporting and religious nature, even if carried out in closed places open to the public. There is also a suspension of childcare services and schools of all levels, as well as the attendance of school and higher education activities,professional courses, masters, courses for the health professions and universities for the elderly, with the exception of the trainees and trainees of the health professions, except for training activities carried out remotely. The suspension of public opening services for museums and other institutes and places of culture has also been ordered. The order, the exact contents of which will be made known in the next few hours, will be subject to changes following the evolution of the epidemiological scenario. The recommendation to all citizens to respect hygiene measures for respiratory diseases such as washing their hands often with hydroalcoholic solutions, avoiding close contact with people suffering from respiratory infections, do not touch their eyes, nose and mouth with their hands, cover your nose and mouth if you sneeze or cough,

12.33 - Emilia Romagna evaluates the closure of schools and universities - The Emilia-Romagna Region is "considering the closure of every school of order and grade, kindergartens, public and private sports facilities and museums" for the health situation linked to the coronavirus. A decision, explains President Stefano Bonaccini, that "we are examining and defining in all its aspects, also in light of the measures passed by the Council of Ministers yesterday evening".
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More than double the number of infections in 24 hours. 76 to 153. The coronavirus advances, leaving behind a trail of panic, of pain for the three victims and of concern, even internationally. Italy is in fact in third place behind China (78,811 cases of contagion, 2,462 deaths) and South Korea (602 sick, 4 deaths) in the world ranking of outbreaks of Covid-19 (data updated to February 23, 2020). Three days were enough to climb it.

An evolving picture, with increasing numbers in the affected regions: 116 cases of contagion in Lombardy (including 2 deaths), with three positive ones in Milan - one of which is a polyclinic dermatologist who was then treated at Sacco, but there is apprehension for an employee of the Unicredit office, subjected to analysis in the same hospital, where tests are underway on 36 people -, 49 in Lodi and province (starting from Codogno and around the town, in the red zone), 14 in Cremona, six in Pavia, three in Bergamo, one in Sondrio and one in Monza. The list also includes the three infected people, belonging to the same family, brought by ambulance to Lombardy from a holiday in Trentino. There is concern even if the Provincial Health Services Agency of Trento has started a series of investigations to reconstruct the family's movements: he would not have had many contacts and would have spent most of his stay in a rented apartment on the plateau.

Twenty-five cases in Veneto (including one death), with the 19 infected in Vo ’Euganeo - another epicenter of the disease -, 3 in Dolo, 3 in Venice, one of them in Mira. Nine in Emilia Romagna, all hospitalized in Piacenza, and 3 in Piedmont, in Turin, while tests on three Chinese from Cuneo were negative. These numbers exclude patients being treated at Spallanzani in Rome, the couple of Chinese tourists (he recovered but under observation, and his wife always in intensive care in improvement) and the Emilian researcher returned from Wuhan, also healthy and discharged.

Twenty-five cases in Veneto (including one death), with the 19 infected in Vo ’Euganeo - another epicenter of the disease -, 3 in Dolo, 3 in Venice, one of them in Mira. Nine in Emilia Romagna, all hospitalized in Piacenza, and 3 in Piedmont, in Turin, while tests on three Chinese from Cuneo were negative. These numbers exclude patients being treated at Spallanzani in Rome, the couple of Chinese tourists (he recovered but under observation, and his wife always in intensive care in improvement) and the Emilian researcher returned from Wuhan, also healthy and discharged.

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Coronavirus: fifth dead, is an 88 year old from Lombardy. 219 contagions in Italy, direct
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Latest live updates on the Coronavirus emergency in Italy. There is a fifth Italian victim, an 88-year-old man from Caselle Landi. Conte: "Maybe a flaw in prevention". There are 219 cases between Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Piedmont and Trentino. Over 50,000 people quarantined by government order. Schools in six regions closed. Venice Carnival canceled. In Lombardy churches and museums closed. President Mattarella signed the Coronavirus decree.

ACTUALITY FEBRUARY 23, 2020 09:50by Francesco Loiacono

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Coronavirus, there is the fifth dead in Italy: 219 are infected

Coronavirus emergency commissioner Angelo Borrelli reports that five people have died from the Coronavirus , including four in Lombardy and one in Veneto. In total, 219 are infected, as communicated by Borrelli in a press conference. A new death is added to the four already known: the fifth victim is an 88-year-old man in Lombardy , from Caselle Landi (in the Lodi area), as communicated by the head of the Civil Protection. The 88-year-old man joins the other victims who, as pointed out by the authorities, have always been elderly people with poor health.

As for the contagions , Borrelli provides the data concerning the individual Regions: 167 citizens of Lombardy have tested positive, among these there are also the four deceased people. In Veneto there are 27 total cases, including the first Italian victim. Finally, in Emilia-Romagna there are 18 cases. The commissioner for the Coronavirus emergency specifies that - out of the 213 currently infected (excluding victims and recovered) - 99 people are in hospital, including 23 in intensive care, while 91 are in home isolation " because they have no particular need for treatment to be hospitalized ".

The commissioner for the emergency Coronavirus is keen to point out that Italy is a safe country: " Italy has intervened with demanding measures, there is security and you can come safely "....

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Coronavirus, five victims. Vo ', the possible patient zero had been in Codogno
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There could be a turning point in identifying the possible 'zero patient' who spread the Coronavirus to Vo '. A 60-year-old farmer from a nearby town, Albettone (Vicenza), a frequent visitor to the bars of Vo ', had been in Codogno and other centers in the Lodi area, a virus outbreak in Lombardy, in recent weeks, and now has cough and flu symptoms. This was communicated by the mayor of Vo ', Giuliano Martini: 'We have notified the local health authority and the mayor of Albettone, now 118 is taking him to buffer.'

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Civil protection: the point of the Covid-19 situation at 12 noon on 24 February
Watch the video with the point of the situation of 24 February at 12 noon of the Civil Protection

219 people are infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in Italy. Of these 5 people have died and one person has recovered.

These are the official figures communicated today at the 12 noon conference by the Commissioner for the emergency of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.

Of the 213 people under observation and treatment, 99 are hospitalized with symptoms, 23 are in intensive care and 91 are in home isolation.

In the individual Regions the number of infected people is as follows:

   Lombardy Region: 167
   Veneto Region: 26
   Emilia Romagna Region: 18
   Piedmont Region: 4
   Lazio: 3 (the 2 Chinese tourists and the resigned researcher)


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6th Death

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Coronavirus: sixth victim in Italy, died in Brescia
The quarantined North. No problem for supermarket warehouses. EU, professional response from Italy

There is a sixth death in Italy from coronavirus. This morning the news of the death of an 84 year old, hospitalized at Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo: he was "an elderly person with other pathologies", explained the president of Lombardy. The fifth victim is an 88-year-old adult from Caselle Landi, also in Lombardy. A woman from Crema who died yesterday and tested positive for Coronavirus died at the Civil Hospitals of Brescia: she was an oncological patient and the clinical picture was already compromised.

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Coronavirus, six victims, 229 infections. Seven regions involved, 27 million Italians
https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/24/news/coronavirus_149_i_casi_confermati_conte_i_contagi_possono_crescere_-249427098/?ref=RHPPTP-BL-I249215369-C12-P2-S1.12-T1

The number of coronavirus deaths in Italy rises to six, and 229 are infected. The victims are all elderly people with a previously compromised general clinical picture. The deceased in Bergamo had been hospitalized for days in the 'Papa Giovanni XXII' hospital. A woman from Crema who had been transferred yesterday and tested positive for Coronavirus died at the Civil Hospitals of Brescia. It is an oncological patient and the clinical picture was already compromised.

The head of the Civil Protection and national extraordinary commissioner for the emergency Angelo Borrelli confirmed in the daily press conference that infections and deaths always refer to the outbreaks already identified and added: 'The outbreaks are still those indicated. I have no confirmation from the regional structures of a connection between the outbreak of the Lodigiano and that of the Padovano '.
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Angelo Borrelli then specified that 172 cases of infection were found in Lombardy (including the four victims). Adding to 32 in Veneto (including the elderly deceased),18 in Emilia Romagna (nine registered today), four in Piedmont and three in Lazio (the Chinese couple and the researcher already discharged) there are a total of 229 cases confirmed in Italy.

Of the 229 confirmed cases, 99 are hospitalized with symptoms, 23 are in more serious conditions in intensive care and 91 have no symptoms and are at home in isolation. To these are added five 5 deceased (four in Lombardy and one in Veneto) and a healed person, the researcher at Spallanzani in Rome.

Our country is thus the third in the world in terms of number of infections, after China and South Korea. According to experts, this primacy is to be attributed to a more widespread control over patients who had symptoms of flu. The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, in commenting on the extraordinary measures launched by the Government (the decree was signed yesterday by President Mattarella), said that the number of infections could increase.

To those who asked if it is safe to come to Italy, Borrelli replied: 'Italy has intervened with demanding measures, there is security and you can come safely'.

7th death

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Coronavirus, the live broadcast: seven dead, 6 in Lombardy. Over 220 infections. Railway illness in Casalpusterlengo: Lodi-Piacenza line suspended
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2020/02/24/coronavirus-la-diretta-sette-morti-6-in-lombardia-oltre-220-i-contagi-malore-ferroviere-a-casalpusterlengo-sospesa-linea-lodi-piacenza/5715242/

by FQ | FEBRUARY 24 2020

Four died on Monday due to the coronavirus , six of the deaths are in Lombardy . It is an 88 year old man born in Caselle Lanne , but residing elsewhere for some time, a woman from Crema , an oncological patient, and an 80 year old from Castiglione d'Adda who from Thursday was hospitalized in the Sacco hospital in Milan because positive to the virus, after hospitalization in Lodi following a heart attack . In the morning the news of another death had come, that of an 84-year-old man"With a compromised clinical picture" who had been hospitalized in the past few hours at the Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo. Today, new cases of contagion have been recorded, in particular in Lombardy and Veneto , where the number of victims has risen to 172 and 32 respectively , but also in Emilia Romagna , 18 , and Piedmont , 4. To these are added the two Chinese tourists admitted to the Spallanzani Institute in Rome for weeks and the young researcher discharged because he was cured. So there are 227 people with coronavirus in Italy ( INTERACTIVE MAP). For this Tuesday a joint mission of the ECDC and WHO will arrive in our country, "in agreement with the Italian authorities" to take stock of the situation of the spread of the virus, but the European Union has already congratulated our Country for its " rapid and professional response " to the emergency.

The link between the Lombard and Veneto outbreaks - Checks are underway on the possible identification of the potential link between the person who spread the coronavirus in the two original outbreaks, that of Vò and that of Basso Lodigiano. A 60-year-old farmer from Albettone (Vicenza), a frequent visitor to the bars of Vò Euganeo, had been to Codogno and other centers of the outbreak of the virus in Lombardy in recent weeks, and now has cough and flu symptoms. He now expects the outcome of the swab that was made to him to understand if he contracted the virus and if it could have been the intermediary between the two centers.

Stop to trains on the Lodi-Piacenza section - Railway traffic is suspended from 13.30 between Lodi and Piacenza , the conventional Milan-Bologna line , for health checks in the Casalpusterlengo station. This was communicated by the Italian railway network. A learns how Ilfattoquotidiano.it , the suspension is due to the illness of the motion director of Casalpusterlengo, treated as the case of coronavirus suspicion. Reprogramming of transport services inprogress. Medium and long-distance trains on the Turin-Milan-Rome-Salerno AV line will be canceledor route deviations via Verona-Padua, with an average lengthening of travel times of 90 minutes . For regional trains on the Milan-Bologna and Bologna-Poggio Rusco line possible cancellations and limitations. Replacement bus services between Lodi and Piacenza and between Bologna and Poggio Rusco have been activated.

Psychosis abroad: the blocked Alitalia flight and the Flixbus in Lyon - Three hundred passengers arriving at Mauritius airport on an Alitalia flight taking off from Italy were blocked immediately after disembarking . At this time, according to what is learned from informed sources, passengers from Italian areas not at risk of coronavirusesare only allowed to disembark, while the others - about forty people from Lombardy and Veneto - have been blocked at the airport and are at risk of being to be repatriated. Meanwhile, a Flixbus that left Milan this morninghas instead been blocked at the Perrache bus station in Lyon, in France , after a passenger reported to the French police a "strong and abnormal cough" by the driver of the vehicle who was then hospitalized in the local hospital where he was tested for coronavirus.

Prevention measures - In order to try to stem the virus, the prevention measures provided by the regions concerned are fully operational: closed schools , as well as the Duomo of Milan and the Basilica of San Marco. All public events and cultural, recreational, sporting and religious events have beencanceled, including the Carnival in Venice and Ivrea . The Milan subway , usually crowded for rush hour, this morning at 7 was semi-empty, with few people in the cars, all with masks or scarves in front of their faces. The same also on commuter trains and on Frecciarossa trainsheaded for the Lombard capital. The whole of Northern Italy stops to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus , after the measures already taken by the government and in force in the Lodi area and in Vò Euganeo, currently the two 'red' areas of the outbreak of the epidemic from which it is no longer possible to enter and go out. And the commissioner Giulio Gallera makes it known that the swabs are starting to run out of reason why they will only be used "to check the positivity to the virus in a subject who already manifests a feverish state" .

Italy sees virus cases rise 45% in a day; deaths up to 11
https://oklahoman.com/article/feed/10021537/canary-islands-hotel-quarantined-after-virus-confirmed]
ROME (AP) — Italy reported a 45% one-day increase in people infected with the coronavirus as other countries in Europe recorded their first cases Tuesday, producing evidence that travelers are carrying the virus from the European outbreak's current epicenter.

Italian officials reported 11 deaths and 322 confirmed cases of the virus, 100 more than a day earlier. ---CONTINUED---

Why is COVID-19 spreading so fast across Italy?
https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2020-02-26/Why-is-COVID-19-spreading-so-fast-across-Italy--OnPxYAKNLa/index.html

In Europe, fears about the rapid spread of COVID-19 are focused on Italy, where 12 people are now confirmed dead and a case has just been reported as far south as the island of Sicily. ---CONTINUED---

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Big jump in Italian cases as coronavirus spreads to rest of Europe
https://mia.mk/big-jump-in-italian-cases-as-coronavirus-spreads-to-rest-of-europe/?lang=en

Italy reported a major increase in new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, with 322 infected and 11 dead, as contagion also spread in Austria, Croatia, Spain and Switzerland. ---CONTINUED---

528 infected and 14 dead

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Coronavirus, Borrelli, 528 infected and 14 dead
Head of civil protection, '37 people have recovered in Lombardy'
https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteebenessere/notizie/sanita/2020/02/25/coronavirus-il-messico-autorizza-la-nave-msc-meraviglia-ad-attraccare-a-cozumel-_44aa77f9-f6c2-403c-995b-dc557a8b5391.html

ANSA ROMA editorial staff February 27, 202012: 58


528 people tested positive for the Coronavirus test. The head of the Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, said during a press conference to take stock of the spread of the virus. The dead are 14, he adds, SO 14 are the deaths from Coronaviruses, even if "we are waiting for the results of the investigations of the Higher Institute of Health for the official". "37 people were healed in Lombardy". "There are 282 positive swabs sent by the Regions to the ISS and all have been confirmed by the Institute at midnight yesterday", continues Borrelli.

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Coronavirus in Veneto, hospitals under pressure: more infections among doctors
https://corrieredelveneto.corriere.it/veneto/politica/20_febbraio_27/coronavirus-veneto-ospedali-sotto-pressione-piu-contagi-medici-eb01af94-592f-11ea-a236-5b0a5d23d2c3.shtml?fbclid=IwAR0eQkg3NbWu9IDR2KVxfxB4D3m6Ekwl-H8xbWsbJ_PLx4G4Yy71miZ3408&refresh_ce-cp

Another cluster grows in Treviso. Zaia orders another 200 permanent hires for the emergency

VENICE The two Coronavirus outbreaks of Veneto and Lombardy are connected. "It is an already established hypothesis," said WHO's Walter Ricciardi, who sent his officials to the two most affected Italian regions. Meanwhile, while the Veneto health system is reorganizing itself to better face the emergency, trying to protect its operators as much as possible, we learn that there is a new white coat infected in Padua. He is an intern from the hospital, a university student, tested positive for the swab and now hospitalized for infectives. He would have been infected not in Padua, where he works, but in Geriatria in Treviso, where he occasionally lends Treviso. One of the patients affected by Covid-19 would have infected him, now in Intensive Care but before he went to Geriatrics, where the doctor was the guard. The Paduan internist, now hospitalized in Padua, was in fact included in the cluster (outbreak) of Treviso. There would therefore be no coronavirus outbreak in the city. "The commitment with which all the colleagues of the departments most affected by the epidemic work is moving - comments Giampiero Avruscio, president of Anpo (primary) -. Nobody shrinks, on the contrary, the dedication is total and unfortunately the risk is high ».

The white coats involved

Thus the number of white coats involved in the infection between Vo ', Limena, Treviso, Mestre and Venice rises to about fifteen (updates are continuous), but only the Paduan is hospitalized. The others - including family doctors - are in home isolation and the last four are Ca 'Foncello specialists infected by the second Venetian victim, Luciana Mangiò, the 76-year-old from the country who has also infected 4 nurses and two social-health workers. Now the outcome of the tampons for the caregiver and the two neighbors is expected, but in the meantime Veneto has a new cluster (outbreak) in the Marca, with 14 cases. It is the fifth, next to those of Vo 'Euganeo (43 cases), of the hospital of Mirano (5), of the civilian of Venice (9) and of Limena ( 8 ), who records the first positive girl on the test, one of the two in Italy (the other is in Lombardy), but asymptomatic and in home isolation. Like classmates, teachers and janitors of the elementary school that the 8-year-old girl, the granddaughter of an elderly man in intensive care in Padua, attends. And that will remain closed for 14 days, the incubation time for the disease. There are also 9 patients to be associated with an outbreak, for a total of 88 infected. One of them from Belluno, the first, but residing in Treviso

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Coronavirus, positive student of the University of Florence. "First case in a university"
https://www.lanazione.it/firenze/cronaca/coronavirus-universita-studente-positivo-1.5047772

He is a 26 year old Norwegian who lives in the center, who has returned to Italy for a few days

Florence, February 26, 2020 - A 26-year-old Norwegian student tested positive for a first coronavirus test in Florence and for which the Tuscany Region awaits validation by the ISS. This is the first case of a university student in Italy infected with the coronavirus ( CLICK HERE for the press release from the University of Florence).

The health authorities have activated an epidemiological investigation to reconstruct the presence of other possible cases related to that of the 26 year old. According to what has been reconstructed, the student had returned from Florence for five days , by plane, with a stopover in Monaco , after a period of two weeks spent in his country. Times that currently do not exclude that he may have contracted any infection in his country of origin, or during the return trip to Italy.

According to what was explained by the Region, the young man, who has lived in Florence since last August for study purposes and lives in the city center, "accused a fever and was hospitalized last night, with a reserved path and in isolation, in the hospital of Santa Maria Annunziata in Ponte a Niccheri , in the infectious diseases department. It is now in good condition and the temperature has already returned to normal. The contacts he has had are being reconstructed, mostly in the Florentine area ».

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Coronavirus, latest news. Lombardy, 531 cases, 85 in intensive care. Lodi emergency
https://www.quotidiano.net/cronaca/coronavirus-italia-news-1.5049878
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Milan, 28 February 2020 - Coronavirus , the latest news from Lombardy, the latest updates, come from the Welfare Councilor Giulio Gallera. Today there are 531 positives in the region, of which 235 are hospitalized and 85 of them in intensive care. This is 125 positives more than yesterday. Overall, 4835 swabs were made, "75% are negative, 11% positive, 14% to be processed," Gallera said. The intention of the Lombardy Region is to "keep the virus containment measures" in a red and yellow zone "for another week.

The Governor Attilio Fontana this morning revealed: "Unfortunately tonight broke another emergency in Lodi . Lodi A suddenly yesterday afternoon there was a crowd of admissions: 51 serious hospitalizations including 17 in intensive care . Lodi is not has a sufficient number of intensive care rooms for which they have been transferred to other intensive care units in the region ". To the Aria that pulls up La7 the president of the Region said: "If you laughed less at the mask and looked at the problem more carefully I think it would be wise".

"From the first evidence, each positive person transmits Covid-19 to two other people. If the spread spreads , hospitals will go into serious crisis not only for Coronavirus hospitalizations but for all patients." This is what the Lombardy Region underlines in a note , explaining that "the available places are limited" in intensive care. "According to the ascertained cases - reads the note - the spread of the virus is still limited and the incidence is high in some areas equal to about 4% of the regional population. Covid-19 for 90% of patients is easily solvable, but in the remaining 10% of cases, especially if elderly or with a compromised clinical picture, it requires the transition to intensive care ". "Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Alzano ) faced emergency situations both for the high number of cases and because 11% of the positivity concerns health workers. To date, the rest of the hospital network is still unable to respond. "

Fontana: yesterday emergency in Lodi, 51 hospitalizations
https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_febbraio_28/coronavirus-aggiornamenti-ora-ora-italia-mondo-3eac40da-59f5-11ea-afa8-e7dfdde6e2a2.shtml

'Unfortunately, another emergency broke out in Lodi last night. In Lodi suddenly yesterday afternoon there was a crowding of hospitalizations: 51 serious hospitalizations of which 17 in intensive care. Lodi does not have a sufficient number of intensive care rooms for which they have been transferred to other intensive care units in the region '. This was explained by the president of Lombardy Attilio Fontana all 'Aria who pulls up La7 talking about coronavirus. 'If you laughed less at the mask and looked at the problem more carefully I think it would be wise,' he added.

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Italy’s Coronavirus Spread Up 50% in 24 Hours, Reports 650 Cases, 17 Deaths
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/02/28/italys-coronavirus-spread-up-50-in-24-hours-reports-650-cases-17-deaths/

taly’s number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases spiked by more than 50 percent in just 24 hours and now stands at 650 cases and 17 deaths, the Italian Ministry of Health says.

More than 400 of the cases are in the hard-hit Lombardy region, where some towns are under a lockdown. ---CONTINUED---

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Coughing Pope Francis pulls out of spiritual retreat
https://news.sky.com/story/coughing-pope-francis-pulls-out-of-spiritual-retreat-11947015

The 83-year-old pontiff had last been seen coughing and blowing his nose during an Ash Wednesday mass earlier this week.

A coughing Pope Francis will skip a week-long spiritual retreat with senior Vatican officials because of a cold.

The 83-year-old pontiff, who lost part of his lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, paused twice while addressing pilgrims on Sunday. ---CONTINUED---

San Marino-8 Cases, 1 Death

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Health emergency coordination group: update of 27 February 2020
https://www.sanmarinortv.sm/news/comunicati-c9/gruppo-coordinamento-emergenze-sanitarie-aggiornamento-del-27-febbraio-2020-a184304

Feb 27 2020

The Coordination Group for health emergencies, at the end of today's meeting, confirms the first case of infection with a new coronavirus (COVID-19) in a San Marino citizen, which was widely expected to happen due to the characteristics of the virus; this circumstance did not therefore surprise the table for the management of this emergency.

It is an 88-year-old person with chronic polypathology, previously hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases department of the "Infermi" Hospital in Rimini on February 25, due to an already compromised clinical picture. Confirmation of positivity to the new coronavirus was communicated this morning to the ISS Health Department. The epidemiological investigation shows that the patient did not travel abroad or even to the red areas of northern Italy.

The operational protocols already prepared in compliance with the ordinances issued and which transpose the indications of the international bodies in particular of the WHO and which in a highly precautionary way include the maximum surveillance and prophylaxis measures of public health were immediately activated. At this moment, a health team is reconstructing all the close contacts of the person considered at risk, on which the measures set out in the ordinance n.1 of 22 February 2020 and the operating protocol adopted at the health level are being applied.

In compliance with current provisions, the doctor who assisted the positive patient with COVID-19 was placed in home quarantine together with his family members; and everyone is doing well right now. A substitute medical practitioner has already been identified by the Primary Care Department. Citizens are informed that the patient has never visited the Health Center of Borgo Maggiore and that the hospital environments where he passed through for the first checks have been sanitized.

Citizens are reminded that in case of respiratory ailments, accompanied or not by fever, it is necessary to contact their doctor or the Medical Guard by telephone and not to go to the Emergency Department or Health Centers.

For information, contact 0549 994001 or the Interforce Operations Center on 0549 888888 for any reports. The invitation to San Marino citizens is renewed to spontaneously limit routine access to the hospital or to the clinics of territorial medicine, which are operational for emergencies and priority activities.

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Italy's coronavirus death toll hits 34; nearly 1,700 confirmed cases
https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Italys-coronavirus-death-toll-hits-34-nearly-1700-confirmed-cases-619412

By REUTERS
MARCH 1, 2020 19:24

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by five to 34 over the past 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Sunday, with the accumulative number of cases totaling some 1,694.

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Coronavirus, here is the government decree: measures on schools, museums, gyms, cinemas and churches in all regions
https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_marzo_01/coronavirus-decreto-governo-scuole-palestre-cinema-musei-b736da86-5bd2-11ea-ae74-e93752023e91.shtml

Here is what the decree provides:

The municipalities of the «red zone»

• In the municipalities of the "red zone" (Bertonico; Casalpusterlengo; Castelgerundo; Castiglione D'Adda; Codogno; Fombio; Maleo; San Fiorano; Somaglia; Terranova dei Passerini; Vo ') is expected

- the ban on access or removal from the municipal area;
- the suspension of events, events and any form of meeting in a public or private place , including those of a cultural, recreational, sporting and religious nature;
- the closure of educational services for children and schools of all levels , as well as higher education institutions, including universities and institutions of high artistic, musical and choreutic training, without prejudice to the possibility of carrying out distance learning activities ;
- the suspension of educational trips in Italy or abroad until March 15th ;
- the suspension of the opening services to the public of museums and other cultural institutes and places ;
- suspension of the activities of public offices , without prejudice to the provision of essential and public utility services, in the manner and within the limits indicated by the prefect;
- the suspension of public and private bankruptcy procedures , launched and in progress in the same municipalities;
- the closure of all commercial activities, excluding those of public utility , essential public services and commercial establishments for the purchase of basic necessities, in the manner and within the limits indicated by the prefect;
- the obligation to access essential public services and commercial establishments for the purchase of basic necessities by wearing personal protective equipment or by adopting particular caution measures identified by the competent healthcare company;
- the suspension of freight and passenger transport services, even if not scheduled , with the exception of the transport of essential and perishable goods and without prejudice to any exceptions provided for by the prefects;
- the suspension of working activities for businesses , with the exception of those that provide essential and public utility services, including veterinary activities, as well as those that can be carried out at home or remotely;
- suspension of work for resident or domiciled workers, even de facto, in the municipality or area concerned, even if they take place outside the area .

In the same municipalities, the prefect, in agreement with the competent authorities, can identify specific measures aimed at guaranteeing the activities necessary for the breeding of animals and the production of food goods and activities that cannot be deferred as they are connected to the biological cycle of plants and animals. Finally, in the offices included in the districts of the Court of Appeal to which the municipalities of the "red zone" belong, until 15 March 2020, it is foreseen the possibility, for the Heads of the judicial offices, having heard the administrative managers, to establish the reduction of the opening hours to the public, in relation to activities not strictly related to urgent acts and activities.

[h=b]Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Veneto, provinces of Pesaro, Urbino and Savona[/b]

- the suspension of sporting events and competitions of all types and disciplines, until 8 March 2020, in public or private places, unless they take place "behind closed doors" . Training sessions, always "behind closed doors", are allowed;
- the ban on organized travel for supporters residing in the same regions and provinces of Pesaro and Urbino and Savona, to attend sporting events and competitions taking place in the remaining regions and provinces;
- the suspension, until March 8, 2020 , of all organized events, of a non-ordinary nature, as well as events in public or private places, including those of a cultural, recreational, sporting and religious nature, even if held in closed places but open to the public, such as, for example, major events, cinemas, theaters, discos, religious ceremonies ;
- activities are allowed in the ski areas on condition that the operator provides for the limitation of access to the closed transport systems ensuring the presence of a maximum of people equal to one third of the capacity (funiculars, cable cars, gondolas, etc.) ;
- the opening of places of worship is conditional on the adoption of organizational measures such as to avoid gatherings of people , taking into account the size and characteristics of the places, and such as to ensure that visitors can respect the distance between them of at least one meter;
- the suspension, until March 8, 2020, of childhood education services and educational activities in schools of all levels , as well as the attendance of school and higher education activities, including universities and institutions of higher artistic education music and choreutics, professional courses, masters, courses for the health professions and universities for the elderly, with the exception of doctors in specialist training and trainees of the health professions, except for the possibility of distance learning;
- the suspension of public and private insolvency procedures , with the exception of cases in which candidates are assessed exclusively on a curricular basis and / or electronically, as well as excluding competitions for healthcare personnel , including state exams and qualification to practice the profession of surgeon, and those for civil protection personnel;
- the performance of catering, bars and pubs, provided that the service is carried out for seating only and that, taking into account the size and characteristics of the premises, the patrons are enabled to respect the distance between them at least one meter;
- the opening of commercial activities other than catering, bars and pubs , subject to the adoption of organizational measures such as to allow access to the aforementioned places in a quota manner or in any case suitable for avoiding gatherings of people, taking into account the size and characteristics of the premises open to the public, and such as to guarantee visitors the possibility of respecting the distance of at least one meter between visitors;
- the opening to the public of museums and other institutes and places of culture, provided that they ensure methods of contingent use or in any case such as to avoid gatherings of people, taking into account the size and characteristics of the premises open to the public, and such that visitors can respect the distance between them of at least one meter;
- the restriction of visitors' access to hospitalization areas by hospital health directorates;
- the strict limitation of visitors' access to guests in nursing homes for the non self-sufficient;
- suspension of the ordinary leave of health and technical personnel , as well as of personnel whose activities are necessary to manage the activities required by the crisis units set up at regional level;
- the obligation to privilege, in the course of meetings or meetings, the methods of remote connection with particular reference to health and socio-sanitary structures, public utility services and coordinations activated in the context of the emergency COVID-19.

[h=b]In the provinces of Bergamo, Lodi, Piacenza and Cremona[/b]

For these provinces, the closure of medium and large sales structures and shops present in shopping centers and markets is closed on Saturdays and Sundays , with the exception of pharmacies, parapharmacies and food outlets.

[h=b]In the Lombardy region and in the province of Piacenza[/b]

In these territories, the measure of suspension of the activities of gyms, sports centers, swimming pools, swimming centers, spas, spas (with the exception of the provision of services falling within the "essential levels of assistance"), cultural centers also applies , social centers, recreation centers .

[h=b]On the whole national territory[/b]

Within the entire national territory, the following is established:

- the possibility that the "agile work" method is applied, for the duration of the state of emergency, by employers to any subordinate employment relationship, even in the absence of the individual agreements envisaged;
- the suspension until March 15 of educational trips, exchange or twinning initiatives, guided visits and educational trips, however named, scheduled by educational institutions of all levels and degrees, with the provision of the right to withdraw from contracts already entered into;
- the obligation, until March 15, of the presentation of the medical certificate for the readmission to schools of any order and grade for absences due to infectious disease ;
- the possibility, for school managers of schools in which the teaching activity has been suspended due to the health emergency, to activate, after consultation with the teachers' panel and for the duration of the suspension, distance teaching methods also with regard to the specific needs of students with disabilities;
- the remote development, where possible and with particular regard to the specific needs of students with disabilities, of didactic or curricular activities in universities and institutions of high artistic, musical and choreutic training in which students are not allowed to participate, for the needs related to the health emergency;
- the extension of the deadlines for taking the driving test in favor of candidates who were unable to do so due to the health emergency;
- the appropriate support of the territorial divisions of the National Health Service to the Ministry of Justice, also through adequate safeguards, in order to guarantee new admissions to penitentiary institutions and criminal institutions for minors.

Furthermore, the text prescribes, for the entire national territory, further information and prevention measures:

- the healthcare staff follows the preventive measures for the spread of respiratory infections and applies the indications for the sanitization and disinfection of the environments foreseen by the Ministry of Health;
- in educational services for children, in schools of all levels, in universities, in the offices of the remaining public administrations, information on preventive measures disclosed is displayed in areas open to the public, i.e. areas of greater crowding and transit by the Ministry of Health;
- in public administrations and, in particular, in the areas of access to the structures of the health service, as well as in all the spaces open to the public, disinfectant solutions for hand washing are made available to employees, users and visitors;
- the mayors and trade associations promote the dissemination of information on health and hygiene prevention measures in commercial establishments;
- public transport companies, including long-distance ones, take extraordinary measures to sanitize vehicles;
- in carrying out public and private bankruptcy procedures, where it is allowed to complete them, procedures must in any case be ensured to avoid gatherings of people;
- anyone who entered Italy, starting from the fourteenth day before the date of publication of this decree, after having stayed in areas at risk of epidemiology, as identified by the World Health Organization, or has passed through or has stopped in the municipalities of the « red zone ", must communicate this circumstance to its general practitioner, to the pediatrician of free choice or to the competent public health services, which proceed accordingly, according to the protocol envisaged in detail by the same dpcm today.

Finally, the Government is preparing further measures, which are about to be approved, for economic support to citizens, families and businesses, connected to the health emergency for the spread of COVID-19, and more globally for the economic growth of the country.

Policeman infected:

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https://www.ansa.it/canale_saluteebenessere/notizie/sanita/2020/03/02/coronavirus-_17472976-6ba0-48ee-9b41-e465c25d305d.html

..First case in Rome, positive policeman - "The tests carried out overnight at the Spallanzani institute confirm the positive attitude of a policeman to COVID-19", said the Councilor for Health and Social and Health Integration of the Lazio Region Alessio D ' Beloved. "The Prefect and the Quaestor have been informed. All close contacts have been reconstructed and placed under health surveillance. The epidemiological link with the Lombardy Region is confirmed" continues the councilor, speaking of the first case in Rome. And the agent's son's high school in Pomezia was closed as a precaution. Also, as a precautionary measure, the lessons of the Degree Course in Computer Science at the Sapienza University of Rome, channel AL, attended by the other son of the agent, have been suspended. It turns out that the man had had contact with people in Lombardy.
Spallanzani, currently 12 positive cases in Rome - There are currently 12 positive cases of Coronavirus ascertained between Rome and the Province. From Spallanzani's latest data there are 7 hospitalized: the Chinese couple by now negative, a policeman hospitalized yesterday, the Fiumicino family (mother, father and a daughter) and a last case with a Venetian epidemiological link. To this must be added the family unit of the hospitalized policeman (wife, two children and sister-in-law), all positive and in health surveillance at home, and a positive fireman at the test and surveillance in the Capannelle barracks...

ITALY

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Italy's Health System at Limit in Virus-Struck Lombardy
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/italys-health-system-limit-virus-struck-lombardy

MILAN, ITALY - The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system there that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors out of retirement and accelerate graduation dates for nursing students.

The region of Lombardy has been the epicenter of Italy's outbreak, registering the first positive test and now counting 984 of Italy's 1,694 cases. Most alarmingly, 10% of Lombardy's doctors and nurses are out of commission, because they tested positive for the virus and are in quarantine, said the region's top health official, Giulio Gallera.

With officials saying they expect Italy's numbers to continue rising for at least another week, until containment measures begin to take effect, the health care emergency in Lombardy has reached a crisis point. Already, hospitals in hard-hit Lodi and Cremona were overwhelmed at times last week, with more patients arriving than could be accepted. ---CONTINUED---

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Coughing Pope Francis pulls out of spiritual retreat
https://news.sky.com/story/coughing-pope-francis-pulls-out-of-spiritual-retreat-11947015

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He's Negative!

Pope tests negative for novel coronavirus: Italian newspaper
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/pope-tests-negative-for-novel-coronavirus-italian-newspaper

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Italy deploys emergency field hospitals to fight virus
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-italy-deploys-emergency-field-hospitals.html

A blue tent packed with masked medics in nylon overalls and rubber gloves greets patients outside an Italian hospital at the European epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic.

Welcome to the "sorting" room: an urgently deployed army-style field hospital where people running a fever or showing other flu-like symptoms are tested for signs of COVID-19.

Italy is learning fast from its mistakes. ---CONTINUED---

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Italian schools to close until March 15 amid Covid-19 outbreak
https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/italian-schools-to-close-until-march-15-amid-covid-19-outbreak-985808.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Italy has ordered schools to close nationwide until March 15 in a bid to contain Covid-19, saying the “prudent suspension” was taken after a careful analysis of how the epidemic was spreading.

Civil protection officials said on Wednesday a total of 3,089 people have tested positive in Italy and 107 of them had died, the largest number of deaths outside of China. ---CONTINUED---

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In Outskirts of Rome, Quiet Streets and Empty Cafes
https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/outskirts-rome-quiet-streets-and-empty-cafes

OME - A young mother painstakingly applies disinfectant cloths to clean meticulously the baby rattles for her gurgling blue-eyed infant bouncing happily on her lap.

This is normally a wet and cold season in Lazio, but this year there have been many days of blue skies and warm temperatures. Unless you are a farmer praying for more seasonal rain, all should feel right with the world.

But it doesn’t. ---CONTINUED---

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https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/03/05/in-drastic-step-italy-bishops-cancel-weekday-masses-in-coronavirus-areas.html

Italy's bishops on Thursday ordered that Masses not be held during the week in churches in areas of the north of the country affected by the coronavirus outbreak, a step believed to be unprecedented.

It was believed to be the first time such a draconian step had been taken in Italy, the European country worst hit so far by the coronavirus outbreak. Masses were not even cancelled when the plague struck Milan in the 17th century.

A statement from the bishops conference said Masses would not be held from Monday to Saturday in churches in the Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna region as well as in the provinces of Savona in the Liguria region and Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region.

The statement did not mention Masses on Sunday, when according to Church teaching Catholics are obliged to attend Mass unless they are ill.

The move comes during the season of Lent, where more Catholics go to weekday Mass than at other times during the year.

The Italian government has ordered the closure of cinemas and theatres and has told Italians not to shake hands or hug each other. Schools and universities have been closed until March 15.

The death toll from coronavirus in Italy stood at 107 on Wednesday while the accumulative number of cases totaled almost 3,090.

Coronavirus in Rome, positive patient at San Filippo Neri: doctors in quarantine
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/roma/news/coronavirus_roma_news_san_filippo_neri_contagio_uomo_anziano_news-5092687.html

Thursday 5 March 2020 by Veronica Cursi

New case of Coronavirus in Rome. One man, an oncological patient, admitted to the San Filippo Neri hospital, tested positive. The elderly went to the emergency room with breathing difficulties and after several hours he was hospitalized in resuscitation. Tested, he tested positive for Covid - 19. And now the quarantine for doctors and nurses could be triggered.

Coronavirus, a positive case in a hotel in Diano Marina
https://www.lastampa.it/savona/2020/03/05/news/coronavirus-un-caso-positivo-in-un-hotel-di-diano-marina-1.38553808

He is an 81-year-old tourist who lives in the province of Bergamo
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An 81-year-old man from Brembate di Sopra (Bergamo province) is hospitalized in the infectious disease department of the Sanremo hospital together with his 76-year-old wife. The man tested positive for coronavirus, the wife is currently negative. The two spouses were staying in a hotel in Diano Marina, together with a group of tourists, all of whom arrived from Brembate di Sopra on 22 February.

"From the epidemiological analysis of the case - reads a note from the Region - it emerged that on 28 February last the woman had felt ill and had been transported by ambulance to the Emergency Department of Imperia, accompanied by her husband. The woman had been discharged and returned to the hotel. Last night, following an illness, the lady was again transported to the Emergency Department of Imperia, accompanied by her husband. Since in the meantime the area of ​​Bergamo has been included among those 'at risk', the staff immediately proceeded to isolate the couple, who was transferred to the Infectious Diseases department of Sanremo where, after carrying out the test for both spouses, her husband tested positive for coronavirus. "

The ASL1 has identified all the health and ambulance staff who have come into contact with the couple: these are 10 employees of the ASL and 8 of the ambulance and self-medical staff, they are already in mandatory trustee isolation at their home, suspended from service. They are fine and asymptomatic. As for the hotel, all guests and staff (10 employees in addition to the owner) are in quarantine. The regional civil protection is already organizing buses to bring tourists back to their home in the province of Bergamo.

Coronavirus, in Veneto the infections go from 386 to 407. 116 people are hospitalized
https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/venezia/coronavirus_veneto_casi_contagio_oggi_5_marzo_2020_mappa_ultime_notizie-5092619.html

Coronavirus Veneto, today's latest news on Gazzettino.it. Seven victims for Covid-19 in our region, the number of infected people is still on the rise: from 386 yesterday to 407 today, 5 March 2020. 116 (+15) hospitalized, of which 25 in intensive care. The Veneto Region has made it known, underlining that there are 96 positives in Treviso, 90 in Vo 'Euganeo, 69 in Padua, 66 in Venice, 27 in Verona, 19 in Vicenza, 14 in Limena, 8 in Mirano, 4 in Belluno and Rovigo, 2 are cases connected to Lombardy (even if resident in Veneto) and for 8 the epidemiological assignment is in progress.
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Covid-19. Dead people in Veneto
Yesterday there was a new victim in Treviso after the two deaths yesterday afternoon. Thus the number of Coronavirus victims in Veneto rises to 7, while there are 3 other deaths that for now are not attributable to the virus (The victims of Treviso and Roncade. Who were Rosanna Sari and Giuliano Bagaggia; Optician Danilo Carraro the first Venetian dead positive to the virus, he was seriously ill). Meanwhile, the Veneto Region has decided to increase the number of beds in hospitals to better face new cases of contagion and the possible increase in patients who need specific treatment (READ - ALL NUMBERS).

CORONAVIRUS - THE NEW RULES AND PROHIBITIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT (DOWNLOAD PDF)
THE CLUSTERS OF VENETO
Vo 'Euganeo 90 cases
Vicenza Province 19 cases
Verona Province 27 cases
Venice Province (excluding Mirano-Dolo outbreak) 66 cases
Treviso Province 96 cases
Padua Province (excluding Vo 'and Limena outbreaks) 69 cases
Mirano (Dolo) 8 cases
Limena 14 cases
Belluno Province 4 cases
Rovigo Province 4 cases.

Cases linked to Lombard outbreaks 2 cases
Epidemiological investigation ongoing 8 cases

116 are hospitalized
Padua hospital 37 patients
Hospital of Verona 6 patients
San Bonifacio hospital 5 patients
Treviso Hospital 25 patients
Mestre hospital 15 patients
Venice hospital 11 patients
Mirano hospital 1 patient
Hospital of Dolo 1 patient
Vicenza Hospital 5 patient
Santorso hospital 1 patient
Hospital of Legnago 3 patient
Hospital of Rovigo 4 patient
Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Negrar Hospital 2 patients

Coronavirus. What's going on in Friuli Venezia Giulia
Coronavirus positive cases in Friuli Venezia Giulia rise to 22. The Region says so. Compared to yesterday, in the last few hours the regional health system has registered further 4 positives. At present there are 5 cases in the region in Trieste (two of which hospitalized), 12 in Udine (two of which hospitalized) and 5 in Gorizia. 249 people are absent, while the swabs that have failed are 369 ...