Chinanews.com, February 26th. According to the European Union News Agency, the Italian Ministry of Emergency Civil Defense reported that as of 24:00 local time on February 25, the number of patients diagnosed with Italian new crown pneumonia has increased to 323, and the total number of deaths has increased to 11. And the epidemic is spreading to central and southern Italy and neighboring countries. The health ministers of neighboring countries are expected to gather in Rome on the 26th to discuss and establish a joint prevention and control coordination mechanism to effectively control the spread of the epidemic.

According to reports, on the 25th local time, newly diagnosed patients with new coronary pneumonia were found for the first time in Sicily in southern Italy, Tuscany in the middle, and Ligurian region in the northwest; the first confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia occurred successively in neighboring Switzerland and Austria. , Spain added a new confirmed patient. The relevant confirmed patients were related to Italy.

On the afternoon of the 25th local time, Lombardy Region added another three deaths. The deceased were an 84-year-old man from Nembro town in Bergamo province, a 91-year-old man in San Fiorano town in Lodi province, and an 83-year-old woman in Codogno town. The eleventh death was a 76-year-old woman from Treviso, Veneto.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte blamed the rapid spread of the new crown pneumonia virus on a poorly managed hospital in the north.

According to the Tuscany Regional Health Bureau's report, on the 25th, two confirmed cases of neocoronary pneumonia have been found in Tuscany, including the latest case found in the tourist area of ​​Florence.

The Health Agency of Sicily said that the first confirmed case of New Coronary Pneumonia found in the island of Palermo was a female tourist from the most severely infected area of ​​Lombardy. At present, 240 people in the Lombardy region have tested positive for the new crown pneumonia virus. Italy's Minister of Emergency Civil Defence Angelo Borelli pointed out that the female tourist had been staying at a hotel in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, and had initially tested the tourist for a positive result of the new crown pneumonia virus and was waiting for the final result of the Italian Institute of Infectious Disease test result.

The Swiss Public Health Agency said on the 25th that Switzerland has detected the first confirmed case of new crown pneumonia virus. The patient lives in Ticino, Switzerland's border with Italy. The patient has been sent to hospital for isolation.

The Austrian Ministry of Health informed the media that two confirmed cases of new crown pneumonia occurred for the first time on the 25th in the country's western Tyrol. The patients were all from Lombardy, Italy, and were young men aged 24 years. The two young people usually lived in Innsbruck, Austria, and the results of the second test of the new crown pneumonia virus were positive.

The Spanish health department said that the third confirmed case of neonatal pneumonia in Spain was an Italian doctor holidaying in southern Tenerife, Canary Islands. The patient had a fever for 6 days during a 7-day trip. The patient's wife was also diagnosed on the 25th. At present, the hotel where the patient is staying has been sealed up by relevant departments, and about 1,000 tourists are stranded on the island waiting for quarantine.

According to the report, a working group composed of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the European Division of the World Health Organization has arrived in Rome on the 25th to begin investigation and risk assessment of the epidemic situation in Italy. Government sources said that health ministers from neighboring countries are scheduled to meet in Rome on the 26th to discuss the establishment of a joint prevention and control coordination mechanism to strengthen effective prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia virus. (Boyuan)