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		</div><p>Italian authorities said the number of people infected with the new coronavirus from China has more than quadrupled due to an emerging cluster of cases in the country’s north.</p>
<p>Many of the new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion and brought the country’s total to 17.</p>
<p>The first to fall ill in northern Italy met with someone who had returned from China on January 21 without presenting any symptoms of the new virus, called Covid-19, health authorities said.</p>
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<p>The 38-year-old Italian man is in hospital in the northern town of Codogno in a critical condition.</p>
<figure id="attachment_149986" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-149986" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-149986" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/739ECA07-D3FE-4581-BF16-A3407DD83ED7.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-149986" class="wp-caption-text">A woman walks in the centre of Codogno, near Lodi, in northern Italy</figcaption></figure>
<p>The man’s wife and a friend of his also tested positive for the virus.</p>
<p>Three patients at the hospital where he went with flu-like symptoms a few days ago also have infections.</p>
<p>Five nurses and doctors contracted the virus as well.</p>
<p>Italian health minister Roberto Speranza said Italy is now seeing the same sort of “cluster” of cases that Germany and France have seen.</p>
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<p>The mayor of Codogno has issued a decree ordering the closure of all restaurants, coffee bars, schools and public gathering spots such as discos and gyms.</p>
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<p>The Health Ministry advised area residents to stay home as a precaution.</p>
<p>Local officials in another town, Casalpusterlengo, ordered local schools closed until Tuesday.</p>
<p>A third town, Castiglione d’Adda, said its libraries, public offices, gyms and waste depots would be closed as a health precaution.</p>
<p>“In other parts of the world, and also in China, it has been demonstrated that this system (of self-isolation) helps in a substantial way to block the spread,” Lombardy regional president Attilio Fontana said.</p>
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<p>“But we must not let ourselves be overcome by panic.”</p>
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<p>The Codogno hospital closed its emergency room, and staff were seen wearing masks as movers brought in new beds and furniture as the quarantine got under way.</p>
<p>Despite the calls for safeguards, Italians were having a hard time finding protective face masks.</p>
<p>A sampling of Milan pharmacies reported selling out weeks ago, as did a pharmacist in Codogno.</p>
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