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Authorities have ordered thorough inspections of shipments of medicines and other products from China. An investigation by the financial and customs guards is investigating whether the containers arriving at the port of Naples from China may contain drugs that are not authorized for distribution by the European Union and Italian authorities. This includes the coronavirus vaccine.

The Naples daily Il Mattino was the first to report that the number of Covid-19 patients among the 5,000 Chinese community members living in the city is surprisingly low, as only five infected Chinese people have been officially registered. An interpreter from the Chinese community in Naples told SkyTg24 news that most of his compatriots were from southeast China and had recently returned to get vaccinated because “vaccination is very well organized there.”

However, he denied that illegal vaccines were marketed in Naples. A Chinese correspondent for the Italian daily La Repubblica wrote that the latest report from Beijing said that the coronavirus epidemic had hit its head in Italy and had spread from there and reached China, not the other way around. The Chinese authorities point out that there were already more patients in Italy last November than in China, where the first infected person identified on November 17 was reported.

According to an investigation by the State University of Milan, among the first cases in Italy was a four-year-old boy who, after several days of fever, was finally transferred to the hospital on November 21 due to respiratory problems. Doctors suspected measles and frozen his saliva sample. After one year, the sample was analyzed and the Sars-Cov-2 virus was identified. This is not the first time that a coronavirus has been reported in Milan as early as November last year, three months before it was so far registered as the “first Italian patient” to be declared infected by coronavirus on February 20, 2020 in Codogno, not far from Milan.

According to the Ministry of Health on Wednesday night, the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus increased by 12,756 in one day, representing 10.8 percent of all those tested. The daily number of deaths also decreased: 499 patients died, while the previous day 528, on December 3, another 993 died from the plague.

Lombardy’s president has announced that the region of ten million will be in the yellow classification of moderate risk from Sunday, which means that after a one-month closure, it can reopen its borders and resume hospitality. In the province, just over 1,200 new patients were screened in one day, up from nearly 10,000 in early November.

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