Patient Zero

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In the age of online ordering and boundless travel, Tino has again hand-delivery of the article through a checkpoint within the country.

He parks next to The Police blocked a road to Codogno, the epicenter of Italy Corona-Virus outbreak. And the ad-hoc barricade, fencing an invisible threat, he leads a simple object of his sister's stuck on The Other side: a face mask.

pharmacies in the city of 16,000 people to be close. Queues of anxious customers are to be formed, such as Codogno has made headlines around The World .

The Mayor , Francesco Passerini, tells me by phone that The Situation is completely calm and deliveries of food and medicines stable. "Our city has overcome everything, including the Second World War ," he says - an attempt to reassure.

But in the 11 closed cities, in which More Than 50,000 people are in quarantine, the fear is of the facility.

Andrea Alloni, a resident in Codogno, says, to convince while some are that the outbreak is over, others are so worried that they are sleeping Pills .

Police were trying to cars stopping in Codogno

medical emergency-the phone lines are saturated. Older people feel particularly vulnerable.

And while a handful of shops are open in the city, The Streets are quiet. Most of them are stay at Home - or, if you venture outside, you do so in face masks.

Italy, struggling to understand how it went from six coronavirus cases to More Than 200 since Last Friday , Europe's worst affected country, and the third are the most affected in the World After China and South Korea .

So far, seven people have died.

"Patient Zero " - The First Infected has not yet been identified. It was initially believed that a 38-year-old man visited a hospital in Codogno, in which a woman later died from The Virus and whose colleague was in China in January.

But if his colleagues tested negative, The Search for the original infector continued. Search for The Source of the outbreak it would help to understand The Authorities , the dissemination and potentially master it.

the Prime Minister , Giuseppe Conte defended his government has the answer, the fact that The High number is here, because in Italy the testing of more people than in other European countries. There is a hope that the outbreak has stabilized, to put the brakes on new cases.

But The Authorities here are concerned.

With the unprecedented containment measures, the extension, the economic impact could be severe.

the Public spaces were cordoned off, schools, universities, and museums are closed, significant events such as the carnival in Venice and Milan Fashion Week were screwed, even the filming of the new Mission Impossible in Venice was suspended.

Passengers at the main railway station in the Lombardy capital of Milan, are now wearing face masks because of the rapid spread of The Virus

Lombardy and Veneto , the two most affected regions Make Up 30% of The Italian economy. Italy's growth is already estimated to be only 0. 1% for 2019 - the lowest in the eurozone. The Talk is now that the impact of The Virus could tip it into recession.

Neighboring Croatia and Greece all visited cancelled, the school, to Italy. Kuwait flights stopped here. Italy itself was areas The First European country to stop flights to and from China as the outbreak began: a risk to an economy, which is dependent on the five million Chinese tourists a year.

In an age of Social Media , rumours and panic flying fast.

It is too early to speak of a panic here. But some super markets are empty shelves to fill up with families.

the Bars and restaurants close This Week - the old town of Piacenza was eerily quiet for a weekday evening. The right-wing opposition to the urging of The Situation , their demand for closed borders.

"We are confident that our health care system can be faced, if it cases a few hundred," says Andrea Alloni by phone from Codogno. "But to not cope when The Number of tips, you will be able to. I pray to God this does not happen. "

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Source of news: bbc.com