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Coronavirus: Chinese embassy issues alert over Italian cluster

  • About 100 Chinese citizens in Italy have contracted the virus as country grapples with resurgence in cases
  • Travellers and students warned not to be complacent about hygiene

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Italy is battling a resurgence in coronavirus cases. Photo: EPA-EFE
Keegan Elmer
China’s embassy in Italy has warned its citizens against “blind optimism” about the spread of the coronavirus after nearly 100 Chinese citizens contracted the pathogen in the country.
Italy remains one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe as the continent enters its second wave of coronavirus cases.

“Recently, there have been many cluster infections in the Chinese community [in Italy], related to the gathering of people as work and production resume,” the embassy in Rome said in an alert on Friday.

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It said that nearly 100 Chinese travellers and exchange students had been infected, and that some of the cases were serious.

“Don’t fall under the influence of blind optimism. Please constantly remind yourself that the epidemic is still stronger than a tiger,” the embassy said, urging people to take extra hygiene precautions at work and school.

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