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His test for coronavirus came back positive that night. Coronavirus: Italy's death toll overtakes China's.

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“The risk of not doing so was too high,” she writes. Malara followed her instincts and quarantined the man, herself, and the nurses who had been in contact with him. In an article for the European Society of Cardiology, she writes, “the patient did not meet the national criteria for coronavirus testing but because of his severe situation, we decided to do it anyway.” Before the test results came in, Dr. Malara made the independent decision to test him for coronavirus.

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Annalisa Malara that he had recently attended a dinner party with a friend who had returned from China. In the hospital, as he lay intubated and barely conscious, his wife mentioned to Dr. Normally a healthy, athletic man, he had visited a local doctor days before, who had diagnosed him with the flu and sent him home. In mid-February, in the midst of a bad flu season, hospitals in the Lombardy region started reporting abnormally high numbers of pneumonia, according to Time.On 20 Feb., a 38-year-old man checked into a hospital in Codogno, a small town in Lombardy, with pneumonia symptoms.

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Wuhan and the surrounding region of Hubei continued to suffer, with cases increasing by thousands on a daily basis, but the virus, so far known only as SARS-Cov-2, no longer posed an international threat. Families visited parks together, students huddled in groups outside of school gates before class started, and people ordered their coffee side-by-side at the bar. Spallanzani Hospital, where the Chinese tourists where treated. In February, as the scattered fears about the Chinese couple in Rome died down, life in Italy seemed to be normal. Despite harrowing news coming out of China, the idea of a world pandemic seemed impossible and surreal, like something out of a Ridley Scott movie-definitely not the next chapter of 2020. At that point, Wuhan had been under a strict city-wide lockdown for only a week, with the virus continuing to spread throughout the city at an alarming rate. But how did we get here?When two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for coronavirus late January, many residents feared that the Eternal City would be the next Wuhan, the Chinese city from which the mysterious new virus originated. Though the country has suffered, strict efforts to prevent the spread of the virus and protect the population have proven to be successful. Looking back on the coronavirus epidemic in Italy: How did we get here?After months of lockdown, almost 250 thousand cases of coronavirus, and tens of thousands of deaths, Italy has started reopening its borders, signaling its confidence in the future.