Italy

Affected Countries

Italy's first reported cases of the coronavirus occurred on January 31, 2020. Italy quickly suspended flights to China and declared a national emergency once the cases were confirmed. Coronavirus started to spread throughout northern Italy and began infecting a large number of people, eventually making its way to the southern part of the country. On February 20, 2020 the third case was reported and the outbreak officially started. The first death was reported on February 21, 2020 and quickly the death toll in Italy surpassed the death toll in China. The cases started increasing and Italy was not able to keep up, resulting in a decrease in medical resources and overcrowding in hospitals. Though the country has not recovered fully, there has been a significant decrease in cases and deaths in Italy, this is because serious measures had been taken in order to reduce the spread of the virus

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