Chinanews.com, February 24th. According to the European Union News Agency, on February 23rd local time, the third death case of neo-crown pneumonia occurred in Italy. The deceased was an elderly woman with cancer. Die. At the same time, the number of confirmed cases across Italy has exceeded 150.
The third dead patient was reported to have been treated at Crema Municipal Hospital in Licremo Province, Lombardy. Italy's Lombardy District Council health commissioner Giulio Galera said she had been hospitalized for several days and was tested positive for the new crown pneumonia virus before she died.
Italy's Minister of Emergency Civil Defence Angelo Borrelli pointed out that 152 people across the country have tested positive for coronavirus, including 3 dead.
In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, from February 23, the Italian government has blocked 11 towns in the territory, including 10 towns in the Lombardy region and 1 town in the Veneto region. The closure of the city is expected to last for several weeks, with more than 50,000 people living in the cities and towns mentioned above.
Borelli said that so far, health agencies have not found the "zero" patients that caused the virus to spread. In some places, virus screening has been performed on Chinese diasporas or Italian citizens with a history of Chinese tourism. (Bo Yuan, Hu Biao)