The way this is going they are going to have to shut everywhere down. Just like what happened in China.
Not sure if anyone else has posted this but Italy is getting out of hand.
Germany for one is not going idly sit by and let something similar happen to it.
World coronavirus death toll passes 3,000 as disease kills five more people in Italy – where cases have jumped 50% in a day
- Case numbers also soared to almost 1,700, roughly 500 fresh cases today
- Outbreak is one of the largest outside of mainland China and Europe's biggest
- Despite checkpoints around contaminated northern regions, it is seeping out
The global
coronavirus death toll has hit 3,000 following a sudden spike in Italian cases.
Five fatalities were announced in Italy today, taking its death toll to 34 as infection continues to cripple the country's northern regions.
Total patient numbers [in Italy] rose to 1,694 after the Civil Protection Agency revealed roughly 500 fresh positive tests this evening - an alarming 50 per cent climb in just 24 hours.
The outbreak is the second largest outside of mainland
China and is steadily seeping across the continent, despite the infection hotbeds of Lombardy and Veneto on lock-down.
Ministers in Rome have taken drastic measures to firefight the epidemic, including scrapping public events and erecting police checkpoints around the 11 contaminated towns.
But despite the travel freeze from the virus-hit areas, where 50,000 citizens are in quarantine, cases scattered across Europe have been traced back to Italy.
World coronavirus death toll passes 3,000 | Daily Mail Online