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Antibody tests reveal 1.5 million Italians had coronavirus

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Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza, left, and Dr. Franco Locatelli, a key government adviser on the pandemic, meet the media in Rome, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020.

Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza, left, and Dr. Franco Locatelli, a key federal government adviser on the pandemic, fulfill the media in Rome, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020.|Image Credit:
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That figure is six times the number of verified cases in Italy’s official virus tally.

That figure is six times the number of confirmed cases in Italy’s main infection tally.

Dr Franco Locatelli, a key clinical government advisor, said the tests were developed to comprehend the infection’ blood circulation across the country and not whether Italians with antibodies were safe from the infection.

The substantial geographic irregularity in the results – some 7%of citizens in hard-hit Lombardy had the infection versus 0.3%in Sicily – revealed that Italy’s three-month nationwide lockdown was critical to sparing parts of the nation the destruction experienced in the north, he stated.

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