From confidence to quarantine: how coronavirus swept Italy - The Guardian 🔗 🦠 🇮🇹 👩‍⚕️ 👨‍⚕️

Undetected transmissions in early stage of outbreak at heart of current difficulties

The sense of confidence was palpable. ‘The system of prevention put into place by Italy is the most rigorous in Europe,’ the prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, boasted on 31 January.