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The mayor of Bergamo , the city where the Italian Atalanta plays, spoke to Facebook users through his official profile and left a forceful phrase about the encounter that pitted the transalpine club against Valencia , which belonged to the first leg of the round of 16. of the Champions League final: " It was a biological bomb ", answered Giorgio Gori after being asked by the spectators, concerned about the coronavirus epidemic that is already affecting the whole world and that it had its first European case in Italy.
"At that time we did not know what was happening. The first patient in Italy was on February 23. If the virus was already circulating, the 40,000 fans who were at the San Siro stadium (in Milan) were infected. No one knew that the virus It was circulating. Many watched the game in groups and there was a lot of contact, "he explained.
Despite everything, the head of the city warns that San Siro was not the main focus, estimated in the Alzano Lombardo hospital, "with a patient with unrecognized pneumonia and who infected patients, doctors and nurses. That is the outbreak focus , "he acknowledged.
From that match in San Siro to the positives in Spain. Ezequiel Garay and several players from the Valencia squad, cases in Atalanta, press people ...
"A biological bomb".
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