COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date

Luigi Santacroce; Ioannis Alexandros Charitos; Raffaele Del Prete

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Luigi Santacroce ¹ ^* , Ioannis Alexandros Charitos ², Raffaele Del Prete ³

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¹ Ionian Department, Microbiology and Virology Lab., University Hospital of Bari, Bari, ITALY
² Regional Emergency Service, National Poisoning Center, University Hospital of Foggia, Foggia, ITALY
³ Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, Section of Microbiology and Virology, University Hospital of Bari, Bari, ITALY
^* Corresponding Author

Abstract

This paper is aimed to point out the current state of the COVID-19 pandemics in Italy. Currently, COVID-19 is an international crisis and all the continents have recorded a certain number of cases to date. After the first report of such infectious threat in China, the disease has progressively widespread thorough the world, and all the countries have attempted to point out specific protocols and therapies to face this new, unknown condition. The authors report an overview of how the Italian health service is facing this crisis after two months from the first internal reported cases. At last, special considerations highlight the non-sanitary issues of COVID-19 outbreak in Italy.

Keywords

COVID-19
Coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2
pandemic
Italy outbreak
healh policy
health funding

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Santacroce L, Charitos IA, Del Prete R. COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date. Electron J Gen Med. 2020;17(6):em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926

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Santacroce, L., Charitos, I. A., & Del Prete, R. (2020). COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 17(6), em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926

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Santacroce L, Charitos IA, Del Prete R. COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date. Electron J Gen Med. 2020;17(6), em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926

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Santacroce, Luigi, Ioannis Alexandros Charitos, and Raffaele Del Prete. "COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date". Electronic Journal of General Medicine 2020 17 no. 6 (2020): em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926

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Santacroce, L., Charitos, I. A., and Del Prete, R. (2020). COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 17(6), em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926

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Santacroce, Luigi et al. "COVID-19 in Italy: An Overview from the First Case to Date". Electronic Journal of General Medicine, vol. 17, no. 6, 2020, em235. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/7926