Italy became the first country in Europe to report the death of one of its own nationals from the virus, triggering a lockdown in about a dozen towns.
"The contagiousness of this virus is very strong and pretty virulent," Lombardy's health chief Giulio Gallera told a press conference today.Prior to yesterday, Italy had reported just three cases of the virus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.He said health authorities had identified "patient number one", a 38-year-old man in intensive care in Codogno.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who has called an emergency meeting with the health authorities, expressed his sympathies on Facebook for the deaths and said the government was considering "extraordinary measures" to fight the onslaught of new cases. "When I meet someone, I talk to them keeping my distance, or I take the long way around to get home so I don't run into anyone."
Two Chinese tourists from Wuhan are still being treated in isolation in Rome. A third man who was also quarantined has since recovered, but is still being held at the same hospital, the Spallanzani Institute in Rome.
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