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Overnight Tetano, an editor and senior moderator at FluTrackers - who happens to live in Italy - has posted a series of translated media reports on that country's 1st known locally acquired case of COVID-19, involving a resident of the Northern Lombardy region with no recent travel history.
This patient, however, is reported to have dined with a friend in late January who had recently returned from China.There are also media reports (not yet confirmed on the Italian MOH website) that the patient's wife and a friend have also tested positive for the virus. This translated excerpt rom www.ilmessaggero.it/
Coronavirus, three new infections in Italy: 38 year old, pregnant wife and friend. Quarantine for 60, two countries in isolation: «Do not leave»
Friday 21 February 2020(Continue . . . )
Three people have tested positive for coronavirus in the last few hours in Lombardy. A 38-year-old Italian was hospitalized yesterday in a prognosis reserved for the Codogno hospital in the province of Lodi . The other two infected are his pregnant wife (he is a high school teacher who is not currently working) and a third person who spontaneously showed up in the hospital with symptoms of pneumonia and who would have had contact with the 38 year old.
This supposed exposure occurred roughly 3 weeks ago, illustrating the impact of a long incubation period and a slow buildup of symptoms, which can delay recognition of the arrival and spread of COVID-19.
