Italy may be wrong on coronavirus control: expert

Create centres for those displaying symptoms and separate them from family, says microbiologist
Reuters Health
Professor Andrea Crisanti
Professor Andrea Crisanti.

Italy’s measures to halt the coronavirus contagion do not seem to be working and it should change its strategy by setting up centres to separate people with suspected symptoms from their families, a prominent Italian microbiologist says.

Italy, which has suffered the world’s highest death toll from coronavirus, has been in nationwide lockdown for about three weeks, but in the past three days new infections have continued at between 5000 and 6000 per day.