Italy now has the largest concentration of the virus in Europe.
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having been given a 10-minutes access to shop in a LIDL supermarket in groups of twenty people on February 23, 2020 in south-west Milan, Italy.: As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy soared on Sunday, health officials in the country are attempting to find “patient zero” while implementing a series of sweeping measures to contain the outbreak.
The last two days of the Venice festival and a soccer match in Italy’s top soccer league, Serie A, were canceled as a result of the lockdowns.:"We still cannot identify patient zero, so it's difficult to forecast possible new cases," Angelo Borrelli, head of the country's Civil Protection agency, said, according to: The vast majority of the confirmed cases have been in mainland China, which has 76,392 infections and 2,348 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.
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