This article doesn’t mention the real reason, probably to be politically correct. It is that the garment industry in northern Italy has close ties with Wuhan China. There was an article about this a week or two ago.
That is a good point. Italy was 1st to sign up for China’s “New Silk Road” project. Lots of travel between Northern Italy and China for business
Yes - but even if there are a quarter of a million "off the books" Chinese in Italy, spreading the disease... There are still one and a half billion Chinese in Mainland China. So the death rate there, in China, should still be six thousand times higher.
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