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we explain to you why the two deaths in Italy worry so much

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.

Concern mounts in Italy after the death, a few hours apart, of dthem patients with Covid-19 coronavirus. The first victim, a retiree dhe 78-year-old died of the virus in Veneto on Friday, February 21. Theuxième, a septuagenarian woman, died in Lombardy, during the night of Friday to Saturday.

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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 added to three first 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 has forced 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. TheSchools, 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.

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. Head of government Giuseppe Conte called a special meeting on Saturday with the civil protection, stressing that the executive plans 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 the source of the infection with certainty, 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, dead Friday while he was being treated in Padua, however, was not in contact with a known patient and this retired mason had never set foot in China. He had been hospitalized 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 shrinks”. He thus deplored the lack of international financial support.

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