Italy has more than 300,000 legal Chinese working in their textile, leather goods and shoe industries. Chinese interests have bought up many of these industries.
Many of them are from Wuhan and went back there for Chinese New Year, then returned to Italy. There are direct flights from northern Italy to Wuhan.
Italy made a deal with the devil.
Thanks for the info.
The outcome is the same, but your info makes it clearer.
The comparison of Italy to the USA ie virus is absurd was my point.
As explained in my post.