The story of the first patient and the widespread spread of the Corona virus in Italy

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The whole world is busy today in a fierce war in which time races to address the new Corona virus, "Covid 19". Perhaps China and its province, Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus, has managed to curb its spread on its territory after a series of national measures that have had the greatest credit in reducing it while many countries in the world are suffering and Headed by Italy, where the virus has spread like wildfire, and claimed thousands of casualties between deaths and injuries.

Research by the French Higher Institute of Health, "Inserm", confirms that since the emergence of the new Corona virus in China in late 2019, it was clear that Italy, France, Germany and Britain are among the European countries most vulnerable to outbreaks of infection due to the exchange movement and close economic and trade relations that facilitate the transmission of the virus.

The epicenter of the epidemic is very similar to the spread of a fire that may start somewhere without a specific reason, but its spread or stopping depends on the circumstances surrounding it. According to the experts of the SACCO Hospital and the University of Milan, the origins of the "Covid 19" virus discovered in the Lombardy region date back to the 21st of February, before moving to Italy through the first patient discovered, "Mattia 38" years.

Patient “Mattia” is an Italian citizen who went to the ambulance department at the Hospital of Codigoniu on the 18th of February because of symptoms he and the doctors thought were just pneumonia to return to his home, but his lack of response to the treatment led his treatment doctor to suspect the matter after his condition deteriorated and he was admitted into intensive care Then he was transferred to a specialized hospital for laboratory examination, and it was discovered that he was infected with the "Covid 19" virus.

Italian health sources say that patient No. zero had spread the disease in several places in the country, while the Italian government was late in taking a series of national measures required in terms of social isolation. In addition to this, public disdain for the virus led to the country in a health catastrophe with the rapid spread of the virus in many cities and regions. Italian and especially northern ones, as the Robert Koch Institute for Epidemiology confirms that Italy was late in neutralizing and isolating the infected people after the first death occurred, unlike other countries.

Italy, in turn, declared the northern provinces of Piedmont, Veneto, Emilia and Romania to be the focus of the virus outbreaks, “closed red areas” from the eighth of March through the application of quarantine and isolation of many cities and towns to stop movement and close schools, institutes, shops and restaurants, and imposes a semi-curfew, while sources confirm that the reason for speed The spread of infection is due to the convergence of the border areas between the northern towns and the intensive citizens' movement between work and active social life and the habits that make them more vulnerable, especially smoking.

The Robert Koch Institute indicates that some people underestimate the risks of the virus outbreak, especially with the exploitation of holidays for picnics, exacerbated the spread of the disease to the authorities to close all tourist facilities, except that tens of thousands of Italians headed for the night of the Italian government’s announcement of the comprehensive closure to transport stations to return to their homes to escape from the big cities and for fear of Keeping them isolated from their families led to the spread of infections in the Italian south, so the police were forced to close bus stations, stop the trains and prevent travel between cities.

The Italian media indicate that since the first case of the virus was discovered in China, the Chinese government applied a laboratory examination and as an immediate result to everyone who went to see a doctor. In Italy, the laboratory test is still not compulsory, as the Italian health sectors began conducting a laboratory examination for everyone suspected of his condition, unlike Germany, which conducted a laboratory examination only on those showing symptoms of the disease, although in many cases the virus was without clear symptoms, the numbers of infections appeared to vary, despite the statement of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the tenth of March that sixty to seventy percent of Germans are exposed To HIV infection and this is what really began to show.

On the sixteenth of March, the outbreak of infection began in all of Europe, and the countries that underestimated the issue and scorned the Italian preventive measures at the beginning could only take the same measures in the midst of the escalation of the real numbers of the injured.

The numbers of injuries and deaths in Italy were a shock to the whole world. A study conducted by the Italian science magazine, Science, revealed that in front of every positive case of the virus, there are at least five to ten undetected cases, while the Italian health system began applying the laboratory examination to those who have clear symptoms that rose automatically The death rate compared to the number of confirmed infections until March 21, laboratory testing was conducted for more than 233 thousand, Italy ranked first in the application of laboratory examination after South Korea.

Bruce Illord, Vice President of the World Health Organization, confirms that the high mortality rates in Italy are linked to the lack of laboratory tests in other countries, which determines the speed and extent of the epidemic in addition to the high age of the infected.

On the other hand, many Italian media attributed the high death rate in the country that exceeded China to its demographic composition, as it is the most aging country in Europe and the prevalence of infection among the elderly being the weakest link in the epidemic due to its direct impact on people with aging-related diseases such as heart diseases, nervous system and the system Respiratory and anemia.

It is worth noting that the large number of infected people put great pressure on the Italian health system, although Italy ranked 2017 as the best country in the world in terms of the strength of the health system.