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Italy, particularly the Piedmont region, has received a halo of hope amid so much alarm. The considered patient 1 from Turin has returned home completely cured of the coronavirus . After a long hospitalization and a 24-hour home confinement, analyzes have confirmed that this 40-year-old man has completely overcome the coronavirus .

It was the Amedeo di Savoia hospital, where he has been admitted, which this Thursday sent the patient home, forcing him to remain isolated for 24 hours until this morning. And this morning, after the last of a long series of analyzes, the decisive: Giuseppe was definitely negative .

Giuseppe can now be reunited with his wife and children after 19 days in the hospital and 24 hours waiting for the latest analysis to confirm his recovery. According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and La Stampa , this 40-year-old manager working for a multinational in Cesano Boscone turned out to be the first Piedmontese patient to contract the virus . And now he will be the first patient 1 definitively cured.

19 days ago the life of Giuseppe and his family changed radically. In the middle of the night an ambulance came to his house to pick him up. Men in protective suits, with masks ... A scare, the first shock for a city that hoped not to have to suffer the same situation as in Lombardy . One of the first accounts of what it meant to accuse flu symptoms and end up isolated as Patient No. 1 by Covid-19 of Piedmont.

Patient 1's family lived very closely, but with great serenity, such a traumatic experience. Since the day an email from Giuseppe's company warned all employees that the activity would be teleworking since Monday, Giuseppe's cough and fatigue suddenly became a worrying sign. "I had symptoms and the flu, but it didn't seem worrisome," he recalls.

The 40-year-old man was the first in Turin to enter the hospital , the first to test positive for hyssop, although he was never in a condition that could cause concern. It was February 22 and from that day life changed for everyone . Luckily, neither his children nor his wife were infected, and he resignedly admitted to hospital.

He was never in danger, never experienced respiratory symptoms like for an ICU hospitalization. In summary, a mild case. "If it had been the flu, I would have been home for some time," Giovanni Di Perri, director of infectious diseases at Amedeo di Savoia, said a week ago. "But he tested positive for the coronavirus, and observations coming in from China say to verify the situations in which there has been a recovery. Therefore, we prefer to be cautious at best."

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