Two of the region's confirmed infections were in relatives of the man who died, Veneto regional president Luca Zaia said. ![]() The Veneto region reported 12 people with the virus, including the 78-year-old man who died late Friday. Ten towns in Lombardy received orders to suspend nonessential activities and services. Lombardy government authorities said the region had 39 confirmed cases, all somehow traceable to the first one involving a man who hadn't travelled to China. The few people out wore face masks, which were coveted items after selling out at pharmacies. In the town of Codogno, where the first patient identified in the northern cluster was in critical condition, closed supermarkets, restaurants and shops made main street practically a ghost town. ![]() Civil protection crews set up a tent camp outside a closed hospital in Veneto to screen medical staff for the virus. Hundreds of residents and workers who came into contact with 54 people who tested positive for the virus in Italy were put into isolation pending results of their tests. A post-mortem test performed on a 77-year-old woman in Lombardy came back positive, though it wasn't clear if illness from the virus caused her death. The mayor of Milan, Italy's business capital and the regional capital of Lombardy, shuttered public offices.Ī 78-year-old man infected with the virus died in Veneto. The secondary contagions prompted local authorities in the Lombardy and Veneto regions to close schools, businesses and restaurants and to cancel sporting events and Masses. ![]() A dozen towns in northern Italy effectively went into lockdown Saturday after the deaths of two people infected with the new virus from China and a growing cluster of cases with no direct links to the origin of the outbreak abroad.
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