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07 February 2020 "There are no cases acquired on the national territory: in Italy there is no local circulation of the virus", said the scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute, Giuseppe Ippolito, during a press conference. "We imported a subject who developed the symptoms after returning to Italy and had very few contacts. Cecchignola's colleagues are tracing all the contacts" of the Italian tested positive for the coronavirus and hospitalized yesterday at Spallanzani, added Giuseppe Ippolito who then asked him if at the end of the 14 days of quarantine the children who are now in Cecchignola will be able to return to school regularly he replied: "Exactly!" The procedure concerns all people who have come into contact ".

New quarantine
Meanwhile, the quarantine starts for the 55 Italians who have returned from Wuhan who are in Cecchignola. The new health surveillance starts again for 14 days starting yesterday. The proposal is to release the Italians under observation at Cecchignola after two negative pharyngeal control tests, said the scientific director of the Spallanzani Institute.

The boy infected
The Italian boy infected with coronavirus, originally from Reggiano, is 29 years old and is a researcher in the United States. He was in China in Wuhan for a holiday on the occasion of the Chinese New Year together with his girlfriend, a Chinese girl from the area. The young man was said to have been in China for a short time before being repatriated with the other Italians. The boy's family from this morning, after exchanging a few words with the mayor of Luzzara, has closed in silence.

The Italian under observation
"It is in good general condition", however, the Italian patient tested positive for the virus. This is learned from Spallanzani's medical bulletin. "He has mild fever and mild conjunctival hyperemia. The clinical and radiological picture of the lungs are negative. The patient will start antiviral therapy during the day." Pharyngeal swab tests for the detection of coronavirus carried out so far on Italians who are in Cecchignola after returning from Wuhan, tests that will be repeated, are negative. "Although it cannot be completely excluded, I think it is very unlikely that the Italian who tested positive for the coronavirus could have transmitted the infection to someone else of the 55 Italians who returned, like him, from the Chinese city of Wuhan and still under observation to the military city della Cecchignola ". This was stated by the director of the infectious diseases department of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Gianni Rezza.

Hope's phone call
Phone call from Health Minister Roberto Speranza to the young Italian coronavirus positive this morning. A call to ascertain the patient's condition and to express closeness.

The Chinese couple
"The two Chinese citizens from the city of Wuhan, positive for the new coronavirus test, are still in the intensive care of our Institute." This is what emerges from Spallanzani's new medical bulletin. "Their clinical conditions are still unchanged, with stable hemodynamic parameters - continues the hospital -. They are currently under antiviral treatment with the drug Remdesivir. The prognosis is still confidential". From the bulletin it emerges that "to date, 44 patients have undergone tests for the search for the new coronavirus. Of these, 33 negative results have been discharged". "The quarantine continues for the 20 people who have been in contact with the two Chinese spouses currently hospitalized at Spallanzani".

The Italian controls
Almost 100 thousand people were checked with the health procedures arranged for coronavirus risk yesterday, arriving at Italian airports with 868 international flights. Of the 98,572 passengers checked, it emerged at the meeting of the Civil Protection Operational Committee, 8 were found to have a temperature above 37.5: additional checks were immediately activated in the health facilities at the airports that excluded symptoms or diseases attributable to the virus. Therefore, no hospitalization was provided for the 8.

Airspace
The flights between Italy and China will remain closed as foreseen by the order signed by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, on January 31, 2020 and work will continue to implement the measures already activated in recent weeks. This was confirmed by the coronavirus task force that met this morning at the ministry after the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman reported in the morning about an opening of Italy on the links after the meeting between Deputy Minister Qin Gang and the Italian Ambassador Luca Ferrari.

The 35 Italians on the Japanese ship
Coronavirus positivity recorded on Carnival Japan's Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama Bay, quarantined off Japan, rises to 61. There are also 35 Italians on board the ship, including 25 crew members, including the captain. Yesterday the Farnesina specified that there were no Italians in the top 20 found positive.

The contagion balance
The death toll from coronavirus has been updated to 636 by the Chinese National Health Commission. The 30,000 positive cases in China have also been overcome. Currently 31,161 are infected. The province most affected remains that of Hubei, which has recorded 69 new victims in the last 24 hours. Of the infected, 4,800 are in serious condition. In total, health authorities tested 273 people on board the ship. "The results of the remaining 171 tests - explained the Minister of Health, Katsunobu Kato - gave 41 other positivity. Today they will be transported to hospitals in different prefectures, and now we are preparing for this. In total, out of 273 analyzes, 61 are positive results".

A case in Korea
A woman was the first person in North Korea to test positive for the coronavirus: the South Korean newspaper JoongAng Ilbo reports it, citing an anonymous source from the North, according to which the woman had accused the symptoms in Pyongyang after returning from a trip to China. The North Korean media have not confirmed any cases so far, but have accounted for the strengthening of the prevention measures and the maximum alert launched by the authorities, which also resulted in the closure of the border with China.

Exhausted masks
All over the world, masks and other tools to protect against the coronavirus epidemic are running out. The alarm was raised by the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. "The world faces a chronic shortage of personal protection equipment," explained from Geneva.

China is growing less
Standard & Poor's cuts the estimates of China's GDP to 5% for 2020, compared to the 5.7% previously hypothesized, due to the heavy consequences of the epidemic triggered by the Wuhan coronavirus. "Much of the impact of coronavirus will be recorded in the first quarter and China's recovery will be more pronounced by the third quarter of the year," S & P's chief apac economist Shaun Roache wrote in a report. The rating agency also sees a rebound in 2021, up to 6.4%, against the previous forecast of 5.6%.