This makes it difficult to isolate the virus. In the rest of Europe the situation in Italy is closely monitored. The French health minister says he is in close contact with his Italian counterpart.
Austria is considering closing the border with the neighboring country as the outbreak continues to escalate and the country refused a train from Italy tonight because two passengers on board had a fever.
“This is madness”
Furthermore, as a precaution, the Italian government has completely sealed off an area containing around 50,000 Italians from the outside world.
According to correspondent Marghadi, people in those closed towns hardly dare to take to the streets anymore and police cars patrol the deserted streets. Supermarkets can still open their doors. People with mouth masks stand in front of them in long rows.
Piero Forleo from the town of Casalpusterlengo near Codongo has no problems with the quarantine of his city. “It’s a good way to keep the virus under control,” he tells Reuters.
Maria Rita Gismondo, head of the clinical microbiology department at a Milan hospital, sees it differently. “People now confuse an infection that is slightly more dangerous than the flu with a deadly pandemic. That’s not how it is. Look at the numbers,” she wrote Facebook.
Her staff had tested corona virus samples all night. “This madness will do a lot of damage, especially economically,” Gismondo said.
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