Messages accessed as part of inquiry show politicians also appeared to make light of cases
WhatsApp messages exchanged between Italian politicians and senior health officials at the start of the coronavirus pandemic reveal how leaders attempted to protect the country’s image as it became the first hit in Europe while appearing to joke about Italy’s role in the spread of the virus.
However, in a WhatsApp message written on 5 March 2020 and seen by the Guardian, Speranza tells a colleague that “we must exploit” a report claiming Europe’s first coronavirus case was detected in Germany in order to protect Italy’s image. Unlike Codogno, which was immediately quarantined along with nine other towns in Lombardy and one in Veneto, the Alzano Lombardo hospital was reopened hours after the outbreak, while Bergamo province only went into lockdown with the entire Lombardy region two weeks later.
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