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The number of infected people is increasing worldwide. And an Italian who returned from Milan on February 25 is the first infected with the new coronavirus in Nigeria. This was announced by the Nigerian Ministry of Health, specifying that "the patient is hospitalized in the state of Lagos in stable conditions and does not present worrying symptoms".

First case also in Holland, he had returned from Northern Italy
Holland has announced the first case of coronavirus infection. The BBC reports it. It is a person in Tilburg in the south who had recently returned from northern Italy.

A contagion in Belarus, it is an Iranian student
Belarus has announced its first case of coronavirus infection. He is an Iranian student who returned last week via Azerbaijan. the Ministry of Health specified that the conditions are "satisfactory" and announced that from now on all people arriving from Italy, Iran and South Korea as well as from China will be checked.

Researchers from the Sacco Hospital in Milan have isolated the Italian coronavirus strain .
This was announced by Professor Massimo Galli, director of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, who illustrated the results of the research work that has been going on continuously since last Sunday, coordinated by Professor Claudia Balotta. Precarious researchers Alessia Loi, Annalisa Bergna and Arianna Gabrieli are part of the team, together with their Polish colleague Maciej Tarkowski and Professor Gianguglielmo Zehender.

"We isolated the virus from 4 Codogno patients," explains Professor Galli adding that "we were able to isolate native viruses, very similar to each other but with the developmental differences in each individual patient".

This is a discovery that will allow researchers to "follow the molecular sequences and track every single virus to understand what happened, how it circulated and how long". The next step will be to study the development of antibodies and therefore vaccines and treatments by pharmaceutical laboratories.

The budget in Italy
The Coronavirus bulletin in Italy at 6 pm on Thursday indicates 650 infected, 17 dead and 45 recovered . So the head of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli. In Lombardy, 403 people are infected (40 of whom are discharged because they have recovered and 14 died); 111 in Veneto (2 dead), 97 in Emilia Romagna (1 dead), 19 in Liguria, 4 in Sicily (2 healed), 3 each in Lazio (all 3 healed), Campania, Marche, 2 in Tuscany and Piedmont, 1 in South Tyrol, Abruzzo and Puglia. There are 248 inpatients with symptoms, 56 are in intensive care and 284 in home isolation. The swabs administered were 12,014 (half in Veneto).



" Three new deaths are reported by Lombardy: they are people over 80, two of 88 and one of 82. All with delicate and important clinical picture," said the extraordinary commissioner for emergency Coronavirus, Angelo Borrelli, during the press point in the headquarters of the Civil Protection. " The infected are at 650, " he said.

The total number of people cured of coronavirus syndrome is 45 , continues the head of civil protection. "From the Lombardy region we receive news of the healing of three other people. The total of those recovered has risen to 40 in Lombardy. And with the 2 in Sicily and the 3 from Lazio the total rises to 45", says the extraordinary commissioner for the emergency coronavirus.

"Over 35 thousand masks are on the way for Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont and Veneto, we are proceeding with important purchases, we have identified the suppliers and we are managing the operation from an administrative point of view," said Borrelli, at a press conference.