Italy - which witnessed the start of the Coruna virus outbreak a month ago - is the most affected country in the world. As of Saturday evening, the authorities counted 6,657 new cases of the epidemic in another record number of concern, raising the total number of people infected to about 54,000.
Italy on Saturday recorded a new record number of deaths from the Corona virus in 24 hours, amounting to 793 deaths, which raises the total to 4,825 deaths in one month, according to civil defense figures.
It was really painful to see the country return to the time of World War II, transporting the bodies of the victims of the disease by military trucks, after it was unable to provide them with health care.
The question that comes to mind: Why has a country with a population of about 60.5 million become a focal point for an outbreak of the virus, and what are the reasons that led to the outbreak of the disease in this way?
Here are ten reasons mentioned by a number of health experts, to try to answer this question:
- Italy remained in denial about the disease, and did not move quickly enough to engage in measures of social separation and embargoes, and reports stated that the intelligence services had warned the authorities of the potential epidemic but had not taken the necessary measures.
Italians have failed to do a large-scale coronavirus testing and testing, although it has proven effective in controlling proliferation.
- A huge and sudden surge of disease has attacked people suffering from chronic diseases in hospitals in the northern region, which did not have a sufficient number of intensive care unit beds or ventilators.
- Italy is considered one of the highest countries in the world in the high age of its population, as about 23.3% of its citizens are over the age of 65, which increased the chance of the disease spreading among them.
- A report published by Fox News attributed the spread of the disease to the family bonding and culture that defines the Italian way of life, and said that the presence of multi-generational families still living under the roof and live events in a family, may be one of the reasons that exacerbated the spread of the virus.
Reports state that the virus may have spread through healthy young individuals who did not show any symptoms or had very mild symptoms, and passed it on to the elderly.
- A report in the Demographic Science magazine on population studies combined these two points, and said that Italy's problem is twofold: on the one hand, it is the second country in terms of the proportion of the elderly population, and on the other hand, young people always mix with their older relatives, like their grandparents.
- A health expert said, with the onset of the disease in Italy, that the first mistake made by the Italian government was that it did not prevent direct flights from China to Italy, and this enabled many injured travelers returning from China to or passing through it via "transit" flights. And spread the infection, without being able to monitor, track and limit it.
The second fatal mistake at the time was the failure to put returnees from China to Italy in a precaution, as countries such as France, Germany and the United Kingdom did.
- Among the reasons that the first-row politicians in the country have shown ignorance in dealing with the seriousness of the matter, and political rivalries have emerged among them about the procedures that must be followed in these circumstances, and some of them have called on citizens ’television screens to practice their lives in a regular manner, despite the early signs of the disease.