The police patrols pass through via Portuense and the Gianicolense ring road. Some just pass, others instead stop in front of the Spallanzani gates in via Giacomo Folchi. it went on like this for the whole day, then also at night and who knows how long it will continue. The coronavirus alarm just went off, two Chinese tourists tested positive and hospitalized in isolated rooms. But there is the fear that before being identified, in the Hotel Palatino, in via Cavour, in the center of Rome, husband and wife coming from Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, may have infected other people during the eight days that have spent in Italy.
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Milan, Parma, some other cities in the central north, and then the capital. At the National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, an international center for the treatment of very serious pathologies, such as Ebola, for example, defeated only a few years ago by the specialists of the healthcare facility, the fight against coronavirus that has started for days. In fact, it was known that sooner or later some cases would also be identified in Italy, and in particular in Rome. And just what happened. And so the first night after the discovery of the contagion in the capital, with the suspicion of other cases – especially among the about 40 Chinese tourists blocked at the Cassino toll booth in Frosinone, by the police who then escorted them their bus to Rome -, the armored Spallanzani. Closed gates, Mondialpol security guards in front of the entrance and in the cage. The bar only rises when an ambulance enters or exits.
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The activity continues, because the flow of regular emergency vehicles. In some cases it is just about transporting suspect patients, who may have contracted the virus in the capital or even in the province. For example, there is talk of a Romanian bricklayer who would work in a hotel in the center, perhaps the one where the Chinese spouses were staying – for now a sort of zero patient for Italy -, who at the Tivoli hospital would have manifested suspicious symptoms. Nothing confirmed, even if right in via Portuense, in the complex that borders the huge one of the San Camillo-Forlanini hospital, and where in the past the AIDS emergency was faced, the main command center in the fight against coronavirus in the area was installed Italian. Here for days now, several Chinese citizens residing in Rome or even just passing through, but on the advice of some relatives, showed up in the clinics to voluntarily undergo checks to verify that they had not been infected by the disease. And always citizens and tourists considered at risk are brought here.
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touched to husband and wife, then to their compatriots group, with the same tour operator, and perhaps today to another group of visitors. But there are other people too. Maximum privacy, like the silence in front of the hospital entrance. But only an apparent calm, because it is perceived that the war only at the beginning. However, the contrast to the disease and its propagation, which is feared quickly since the spouses remained in circulation for eight days in potentially very crowded places such as tourism, also passes through intelligence work to track down as many people as they could. be in contact with them. In this, the collaboration of the fundamental law enforcement agencies, because only in this way, with a meticulous investigation work, can we reconstruct all the movements and understand who, how, where and when who contracted the virus met healthy people who could now to be sick. In short, a race against time, while the night out of Spallanzani, off limits for anyone, runs fast. Dawn is expected, and the first medical bulletin announced to describe the health conditions of the two Chinese tourists to the Italians. From here, in fact, not only ambulances pass, but also the news that could mark the next few days.
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