A dozen towns in northern Italy effectively went into lockdown after the deaths of two people infected with the new virus from China and a growing cluster of cases with no direct links to the origin of the outbreak abroad.
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Hundreds of residents and workers who came into contact with 54 people who tested positive for the virus in Italy were put into isolation pending results of their tests. Civil protection crews set up a tent camp outside a closed hospital in Veneto to screen medical staff for the virus. Zaia said Saturday that the contagion showed that the virus is transmitted like any flu and that trying to pinpoint a single source for the cases or to establish a link to China no longer were effective containment measures.
The first person to fall ill had met with a man who returned from China on Jan. 21 and remains without symptoms. Other people acquired their infections from the patient who hadn't been in China, either through contact with him or the hospital in Codogno where he first received treatment Feb. 18. However, the world's largest eyewear trade fair, MIDO, announced it was putting off its Milan show until June because of the outbreak.
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