They started locking down nearly a month ago. Which is past the incubation period.
So the majority of new cases today were infected during the quarantine period.
Chances are, there are a high number asymptomatic cases. And they are infecting people they are holed up with.
On the Diamond Princess cruise ship, 20% of passengers tested positive for COVID-19, but never developed any symptoms.
Nobody on the Diamond Princess had symptoms?
I believe the stat was that 20% of the passengers tested positive, with no mention of which of those 20% had symptoms.
“They started locking down nearly a month ago. Which is past the incubation period.”
No, they had a regional lockdown Mar 8 and a national lockdown Mar 9.
The growth rate of new cases per day has dropped from >20 percent per day on Mar 9 to three days of 13 percent.
But, new cases are still growing, and the death rate is still growing for Italy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy#Timeline
Italy didn’t start locking down a month ago - it’’s just simply not true. You do realize many here have been watching this for several months. More like March 9th, a couple provinces late Feburary, why lie about this - it takes a second to verify? They haven’t been in lock down for a month. Stop making shit up.
Their ‘lockdown’ wasn’t really a lockdown.
They didn’t close down restaurants/bars and non essential businesses until after the ‘official’ lockdown.
I think this is right. In Italy this is exacerbated by the whole family lives together from 3 to 103.