With 320+ confirmed cases and 10 deaths, Italy has been hit harder by the coronavirus than any other country in the EU. There’s no clear-cut answer why.
Scientists have not been able to agree on an explanation for the prevalence of the coronavirus in Italy partly because they have not identified a so-called patient zero who first brought it into the country.
Burioni added,"Infected people should be isolated as soon as possible, which is why it was pivotal to keep an eye on people returning from China." "This is not the bubonic plague, but it's not the flu either, which is why containment is key and I'm sorry there hasn't been a common European response to the emergency," said Burioni.
Some commentators suggested Italy had more confirmed cases because it had run more tests than other countries. Ricciardi, a member of the WHO's European advisory committee on health research, said Italy ran 4,000 tests while France tested a mere 300 people — but the U.K. tested over 6,500 people, selected according to different criteria, with only a handful of positive results.
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