COVID-19 is not at pandemic status yet, the WHO says. But with confirmed cases in 32 countries, experts say it’s time to “start to shift … thinking from containment of the virus to risk mitigation.”
A woman wearing a face mask talks on the phone as she walks in the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery shopping arcade in downtown Milan, Italy, Monday. Italy's health ministry says the country now has 229 coronavirus cases, with six deaths.A woman wearing a face mask talks on the phone as she walks in the Vittorio Emanuele Gallery shopping arcade in downtown Milan, Italy, Monday. Italy's health ministry says the country now has 229 coronavirus cases, with six deaths.
Italian health officials have ordered a quarantine for tens of thousands of residents in Lombardy. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome, Italy's experts have not been able to piece together how the coronavirus got a foothold there. As they watched the number of COVID-19 cases in Italy bloom from a handful to the hundreds, officials in Lombardy, which includes Milan, banned large public gatherings and shut down schools, universities, museums, movie theaters and other gatherings for at least one week.
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