![]() ![]() Tests were being administered on the 38-year-old's doctor, who paid him a home visit, as well as on 120 people he worked with at the research and development branch of Unilever in the town of Casalpusterlengo, Gallera said. His wife and a friend of his have also tested positive for the coronavirus. ![]() The 38-year-old is now hospitalized and in critical condition. Read more: Opinion: Journalists' expulsion a sign of China's insecurity The first to fall ill from the virus was a 38-year-old Italian who met with someone who had returned from China on January 21, health authorities confirmed. The cluster was located in a handful of small towns in the Lombardy region, according to the head of regional health, Giulio Gallera. Communes in the Lombardy region put up signs advising people to stay indoors Image: picture-alliance/FOTOGRAMMA/M. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expressed his sympathies for the two who passed away and said he had called an emergency meeting, as more than 50,000 people from about a dozen towns in two northern regions were asked to stay at home by authorities. The death of a 75-year-old woman on Saturday near the small town of Codogno in Lombardy came just a day after a 78-year-old man succumbed to the virus in the neighboring region of Veneto, marking the first deaths in Italy. The governor of Lombardy region Attilio Fontana said on Sunday that his area now has 89 confirmed cases, bringing the country's overall total to more than 100. The outbreak has also caused Italian authorities to place several towns on lockdown amid a large increase in the number of cases, as well as the two deaths reported on Friday and Saturday. The Italian government on Saturday said it was considering "extraordinary measures" to fight the coronavirus following the deaths of two citizens. ![]()
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