PRAY: Coronavirus Outbreak Explodes in Italy with Fears It Can't Be Contained
Rick Moran : Feb 24, 2020
PJMedia.com
...All across the country, paranoia is spreading faster than the virus.
[PJMedia.com] More than 50,000 people in 10 towns in northern Italy have been placed under strict quarantine following several cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 being discovered. So far, two Italians have died but hundreds have been infected and many more thousands have been exposed. (Image: AP Photo-Dake Kang /via PJMedia)
Panic is spreading quickly.
But all across the country, paranoia is spreading faster than the virus. Giorgio Armani tweeted that he will now hold his Fall 2020 show behind closed doors in Milan this week, livestreaming the runway from an empty theater. The mayor of Milan, a city of more than 1.3 million people, announced Sunday that all schools and universities will be closed for at least a week even though the city is not locked down under the current quarantine.
In Rome, nervous taxi drivers outside Fiumicino Airport were hesitant to pick up Asian passengers and a Chinese woman in Turin reported being assaulted for simply being Chinese.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced that all scholastic trips into and out of the country are suspended, including one involving this reporter's son who was pulled from a flight to Budapest along with 30 other students early Sunday morning.
Realistically, your chances of dying from COVID-19 are less than two percent. The older and sicker you are, the better your chances are of becoming seriously ill.
But the pathology of the disease is still little understood.
In the northern town of Codogno, near Milan, the 39 people who initially tested positive are all tied to the local hospital and a so-called "Patient Zero" who was thought to have brought it back from Shanghai. The problem is that "Patient Zero" never... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here
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