Two new cases in Italy of Coronavirus. A sixty-year-old entrepreneur from Florence – who is now hospitalized in the infectious diseases department of the Policlinico di Careggi – and a tourist from Bergamo on vacation in Palermo, who had been hospitalized in isolation in the Cervello hospital since last night. Quarantine has been arranged for the group of friends of the woman – who, according to what declared by the President of the Region, Nello Musumeci, fully conscious and does not present particular conditions of malaise – and for the people who have been in close contact with tourists. This the first case of coronavirus ascertained in Southern Italy.

The coronavirus epidemic (Covid-19) erupted in China in late 2019 and spread from there to 28 states. Italy is the third country in the world by number of infections, after China (over 77 thousand) and South Korea (763): according to the latest bulletin, 229 cases have been ascertained in our country (also counting deaths and who was sick but then healed).

Seven people who had contracted the virus died (here is our study on the victims). It is a 78-year-old man from Vo ‘Euganeo (Padua), a 77-year-old from Casalpusterlengo, an elderly woman from Trescore Cremasco (Cremona), already debilitated because of a tumor; an 84 year old from Villa di Serio (Bergamo) who had previous pathologies, an 88 year old from Codogno, in the Lodi area; an 80 year old from Castiglione d’Adda; a 62 year old from Castiglione d’Adda. Fundamental, in these cases and if others should occur, understand if the virus and any subsequent disease are the cause or a contributing cause of the death: the first Italian victims were already more or less seriously ill (here the complete article) and the Covid-19 precipitated the situation.