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The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus. [ 1 ]
The statistics of some other European countries kept separate counts of cases where coronavirus was the only known medical ailment, thus often excluding deaths of people with pre-existing conditions. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] In addition to this, some European countries only reported fatalities occurring in hospitals.
1.2 February–March 2020: Clusters in Northern Italy. 1.3 March 2020: Spread to other regions. ... The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
(Bloomberg) -- Italy will present a plan this week to ease its rigid lockdown, joining Germany, France and Austria in pursuing a gradual return to normality as coronavirus infection rates fall and ...
Italy was the first country to implement a national quarantine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 29 ] Conte announced on 11 March that the lockdown would be tightened, with all commercial and retail businesses except those providing essential services, like grocery stores, food stores, and pharmacies, closed down. [ 30 ]
The sweeping quarantine Italy announced for its northern regions caused confusion and anger as it restricted the movements of a quarter of its people. Travel chaos erupts as Italy quarantines ...
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 , began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and then worldwide in early 2020.
The CIA provided an average of $5 million annually in covert aid to Italy from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. This aid went towards financially supporting centrist Italian governments and using the awarding of contracts to weaken the Italian Communist Party's hold on labor unions.