page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
section_title: Veneto
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Italy / Timeline / Clusters in northern Italy / Veneto
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Volontari della Protezione Civile installano una tenda presso il pronto soccorso dell'Azienda Ospedale-Università di Padova per fronteggiare l'epidemia di SARS-CoV-2 il 24 febbraio 2020.
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Italy is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was first confirmed to have spread to Italy on 31 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus. One week later an Italian man repatriated back to Italy from the city of Wuhan, China, was hospitalised and confirmed as the third case in Italy. A cluster of cases was later detected, starting with 16 confirmed cases in Lombardy on 21 February, and 60 additional cases and the first deaths on 22 February. By the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all regions of Italy. On 6 March 2020, the Italian College of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care published medical ethics recommendations regarding triage protocols that might need to be employed.
  On 31 January, the Italian government suspended all flights to and from China and declared a state of emergency. In February, eleven municipalities in northern Italy were identified as the centres of the two main Italian clusters and placed under quarantine. The majority of positive cases in other regions traced back to these two clusters.
context_section_description: A secondary cluster of infections occurred in the region of Veneto, which was initially thought to be the result of a farmer being infected when visiting the primary source in Codogno. The farmer was tested, and the following day, the test was confirmed negative.
  On 21 February 2020, two people tested positive in Veneto. The next day, one of them, a 78-year-old man, died at the Schiavonia Hospital in Monselice, making him the first fatality in Italy. The man lived in the municipality of Vò, which was put under quarantine.
  On 25 February, a 76-year-old woman with pre-existing medical conditions died in Treviso.
  On 26 February, an additional case involving a minor was identified. An 8-year-old girl who lived in Codevigo tested positive.
  On 28 February, Veneto governor Luca Zaia mentioned that after the first two cases, he ordered all 3,300 Vò residents to be tested. Of 6,800 swabs, 1.7% were confirmed positive. This epidemiological study would be used for outbreak investigation by the University of Padua.
  As of 28 February, there were 151 confirmed cases in Veneto, with 70 cases in the municipality of Vò, including the two fatalities.
  By 14 March, no new cases were detected in the municipality of Vò.
caption: Civil Protection's first aid spot in Padua
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