Italy sees virus cases quadruple in emerging cluster
(WorldNews Italy)

Codogno, Italy - The number of people in Italy infected with the new virus from China more than quadrupled Friday due to an emerging cluster of cases in the country´s north that prompted officials to order schools, restaurants and businesses to close. Many of the 14 new cases represented the first infections in Italy acquired through secondary contagion and brought the country´s total to 17. The cluster was located in a handful of tiny towns southeast of Milan in the Lombardy region, said Lombardy regional health chief Giulio Gallera. Personnel carry new beds inside the hospital of Codogno, near Lodi in Northern Italy, Friday, Feb. 21,2020. Health officials reported the country's first...