PALERMO/ROME - Italian authorities on Tuesday reported that a woman had tested positive for the coronavirus in Sicily, the first case south of Rome, as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte blamed the management of a hospital in the country's north for the outbreak."At this point, we know that the way one hospital facility was managed was not entirely appropriate," he told Italian TV on Monday evening.
Meanwhile, Sicily's regional governor Nello Musumeci said a tourist from Bergamo, in Lombardy, had been hospitalised in the island's capital Palermo after being diagnosed with the illness, and all those travelling with her have been quarantined. Lombardy's Governor Attilio Fontana accused Mr Conte of a"desperation strategy... probably trying to attack others to distract attention ".
"There are resources the EU can give us in relation to economic events that could lower GDP considerably," Deputy Economy Minister Laura Castelli said in a radio interview with state channel RAI. Even before the outbreak of the virus, which triggered a fall of more than 5 per cent on the Milan bourse on Monday, Italy was teetering on the edge of recession, after GDP fell 0.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Milan cathedral was closed to visitors, the Venice carnival, one of the world's premier tourist attractions, was shut early for the first time in decades and airlines began restricting flights to Italy.
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