It was feared that the arrival of the coronavirus in the south of Italy, less well equipped in hospitals than the north, would cause a massacre. Especially since the leaks on the closure of the north on March 7 had caused the exodus of thousands of Italians from north to south, perhaps taking with them the highly contagious virus. However, the confinement of the entire territory on March 11 will have enabled, if not to block, at least to limit its expansion and its ravages in the south.
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"Our greatest effort, and all our bet, aims to prevent the curves of spread of the virus in the North from being repeated in the South", explained on March 23 the director of the Higher Institute of Health (ISS), Silvio Brusaferro. While the Covid-19 has successfully penetrated all regions of Italy, it has never spread at the speed observed in Lombardy. In Sardinia, Calabria, Basilicata, Molise, the number of total cases is everywhere less than 700. Reported to their population and their hospital infrastructure, the 2900
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