国际英语资讯:Italys confirmed coronavirus cases exceed 1,000_时事

国际英语资讯:Italys confirmed coronavirus cases exceed 1,000

Assessing the overall situation at the press conference with the commissioner, National Institute of Health (ISS) President Silvio Brusaferro explained it was still too early to see the impact of the containment measures adopted on the infection evolution.

"The effects of the measures adopted last week will be visible in some 13-14 days, which coincides more or less with the incubation period," Brusaferro told reporters.

"Therefore, the cases we are seeing today are believed to be related -- for the great majority -- to people who were infected before the measures entered into force," he explained.

Officials first confirmed the coronavirus outbreak on Feb. 21, when six cases of infection emerged in the small town of Codogno in Lombardy.

In response, Codogno and another nine nearby towns were put under lockdown in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. The same occurred to another town in Veneto, after another hotbed of coronavirus was registered in that region.

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's cabinet passed a first package of measures to support households, companies, and economic sectors in the worst affected areas -- those put under quarantine in Lombardy and Veneto -- on Friday, and a second package to contain the impact on the overall domestic economy was announced.

"In the next days, we will approve a broader and more substantial decree. The country must face this emergency with resolution, cohesion, and faith," Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri wrote on Twitter.