The ER ward at the hospital at
Codogno, the Lombardy town hit first by the coronavirus
emergency in February, reopened on Thursday and immediately
reported a suspected new case of COVID-19.
The man was quickly placed under isolation from other
patients.
The ER was closed down on the night of February 20-21 when
Italy's first coronavirus patient, a man named Mattia, was
detected.
Meanwhile Padua University Microbiology lecturer Andrea
Crisanti, who leads the fight against the emergency in Veneto,
said the virus hit the first hotspot there, Vo' Euganeo, "around
the first or second week in January".
This has emerged, he said, from "an analysis of the
serological tests conducted on the (local) population".
Furthermore, tests have shown that 5% of the Vo' population
has antibodies to COVID-19.
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