A dozen towns in northern Italy effectively went into lockdown because of a growing cluster of cases with no direct links to the origin of the outbreak abroad.
Workers wear masks at the Unilever factory where a 38-year-old working in the research and development branch fall ill with the new virus from China, in Casalpusterlengo, Northern Italy, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. A dozen northern Italian towns were on effective lockdown Saturday after the new virus linked to China claimed two fatalities in Italy and sickened an increasing number of people who had no direct links to the origin of the virus.
Hundreds of residents and workers who came into contact with an estimated 54people confirmed infected in Italy were in isolation pending test results. Civil protection crews set up a tent camp outside a closed hospital in Veneto to screen medical staff for the virus. The Veneto region reported 12 people with the virus, including a 78-year-old man who died late Friday. Two of the region’s confirmed infections were in relatives of the man who died, Veneto regional president Luca Zaia said.
The head of the Lombardy health and welfare ministry, Giulio Gallera, said the region’s 39 cases all were connected to the first patient to fall ill there, with patients acquiring the infection either via contact with him or with the hospital in Codogno where he first received treatment Feb. 18.More than 250 tests were completed in Lombardy, though hundreds more were being processed, including among the man’s colleagues at a Unilever plant near Codogno where he worked, Gallera said.
The number of confirmed infections rapidly changed, but by Saturday stood at 54 nationwide: 39 in Lombardy, 12 in Veneto and the three in Rome that were Italy’s only cases until the clusters emerged in the north Friday. The Italian patient, who tested positive for the virus two weeks ago, was cleared to leave the hospital, while one of the Chinese visitors tested negative for the virus for the first time.
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