From zero to hero: Italy's Chinese help beat coronavirus

FLORENCE: In the storm of infection and death sweeping Italy, one big community stands out to health officials as remarkably unscathed - the 50,000 ethnic Chinese who live in the town of Prato.

Ethnic Chinese make up about a quarter of Prato's population, but Berti credits them with bringing down the entire town's infection rate to almost half the Italian average - 62 cases per 100,000 inhabitants versus 115 for the country.Prato's Chinese community, built originally around the textile industry, went into lockdown from the end of January, three weeks before Italy's first recorded infection.They knew what was coming and spread the word: stay home.

"Most of them looked at me like a Cassandra," he said."No one could believe it was happening here ... Now Troy is burning and we are all locked inside."When Chinese-born businessman Luca Zhou flew home from China on Feb 4 to rejoin his wife and 28-year-old son in Prato, he put himself straight into quarantine in his bedroom for 14 days, separated from his wife and son.

"My Italian friends looked at me oddly. I tried many times to explain to them that they should wear them ... but they didn't understand," Luca said.

Yah right hahhahaha

Finally The world Vs China. All others countries hate china.

Some dumb and dumber person from a Super power country will never understand that this is a world wide affair. It’s not a kiddish blame game and something needed to be done. Worse, their a-hole P is not even doing the right things and resulted in more deaths/spread.

I guess the FAULTY VENTILATORS CHINA SENT TO SPAIN WAS OK. YOUR BECOMING FAKE NEWS

FUK CHINA, THEY MISLEAD THE WORLD

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