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First Italian coronavirus positive

2/6/2020, 10:43:10 PM


The Higher Institute of Health (ISS) communicated to the Ministry of Health task force the positive result of the coronavirus confirmation test on one of the Italian returnees from Wuhan, quarantined in the military city of Cecchignola. (HANDLE)

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 6 - The Higher Institute of Health (ISS) has communicated to the task force of the Ministry of Health the positive result of the coronavirus confirmation test on one of the Italian returnees from Wuhan, quarantined in the military city of the Cecchignola. Iss communicated it himself, specifying in a note that the patient is currently hospitalized at the Spallanzani institute with "modest rise in temperature and hyperemia-conjunctival".