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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 ]
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 ]
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.
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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.
Bergamo—a city close to Milan in Italy’s northern Lombardy region—was home to the West’s first significant, and potentially most deadly, COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020.