Coronavirus: inquiry opens into hospitals at centre of Italy outbreak Investigation begins amid reports doctors delayed testing ‘super-spreader’
Angela Giuffrida in Rome and Peter Beaumont in London Wed 26 Feb 2020 18.39 GMT Last modified on Thu 27 Feb 2020 00.50 GMT
A police officer wearing a protective mask speaks with a motorist at a yellow zone quarantine roadblock, near the red zone in the town of Codogno
Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the procedures adopted by hospitals in the Lombardy region at the centre of Europe’s coronavirus epidemic, amid reports doctors initially delayed testing an Italian “super-spreader”, allowing the disease to proliferate rapidly including beyond the country’s borders.
As new cases were confirmed in Spain, France, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Norway and Algeria, it was reported that a hospital in Lombardy, where the bulk of the infections are located, delayed testing “patient-one”, a 38-year-old man who is believed to be the first source of local transmission. (リンク先に続きあり)
