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First death in Italy from coronavirus: Official

Saturday, 22nd February 2020

A 78-year old Italian who had tried positive for the coronavirus has passed on, Italy's wellbeing clergyman said Friday.

The man had been in a medical clinic in the northern area of Veneto for around ten days for an inconsequential sickness, serve Roberto Speranza said.

The news broke after every single open space in 10 towns in the northern district of Lombardy were shut, and games and strict masses dropped, after a flurry of new infection cases.