Direct Latest news on the coronavirus
Now that more than 12 months have passed since the outbreak of the
coronavirus
pandemic
in Italy, now that we are forced to count more than 100,000 deaths caused by Covid, it is fair to remember who was the first victim of the virus in Italy: his name was
Adriano Trevisan
, he was 78 years old.
Confused with the flu
Former owner of a small construction company, retired for some time, Trevisan was hospitalized on February 12, 2020 at the Schiavonia hospital, between Este and Monse
lice, in the province of
Padua
The symptoms she presented suggested she had a severe flu.
But after a few days his condition had worsened and Mr.
Hadrian
, along with another 67-year-old pensioner, also hospitalized with a similar clinical picture, underwent a throat swab. The test left no doubts:
they both tested positive
The two retirees knew each other, they went to the same bars where they went to play cards, and neither of them had ever been to China.
Family members in isolation
Trevisan died on February 22, 2020 in the intensive care unit.
For the members of his family, including Vanessa, one of the three children of Adriano, former mayor of
Vo 'Euganeo
, immediately causes isolation at home.Meanwhile, while the Microbiology and Virology laboratory of the University of Padua diagnosed the infection by
coronavirus
, the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia gathered in Vo 'Euganeo the crisis unit in relation to the Minister of Health Speranza and the then Chief of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, to adopt the so-called "prudential measures" to stop the spread of the virus, and a few days later the hospital
Schiavonia
was closed and emptied of patients and the town of
Vo 'Euganeo
isolated from the rest of the world: no one entered, no one left.
To continue reading for free
Sign inSign up
Or
subscribe to Premium
and you will have access to all the web content of El Mundo
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
Know more