An outbreak of Coronavirus in northern Italy worsened on Friday 21 February, with health officials announcing 14 confirmed cases in Lombardy, while two other cases have been reported in the neighboring region of Veneto.
ANSA reports that the man’s wife – who is eight months pregnant – is also infected and is being isolated at the Codogno hospital along with a third person, a colleague of the 38-year-old, who presented himself in hospital.
The 38-year-old is believed to have contracted the virus after having dinner with a friend who had returned to Italy from China in late January. The friend has been located and is now in isolation at Milan’s Sacco Hospital.