(ANSA) - Milan, June 4 - The ER ward at the hospital at Codogno, the Lombardy town hit first by the coronavirus emergency in February, reopened on Thursday and was immediately reported to have a new case of COVID-19, before it was clarified that the man had tested negative.
The man was quickly placed under isolation from other patients.
. The ER was closed down on the night of February 20-21 when Italy's first coronavirus patient, a man named Mattia, was detected.
Meanwhile Padua University Microbiology lecturer Andrea Crisanti, who leads the fight against the emergency in Veneto, said the virus hit the first hotspot there, Vo' Euganeo, "around the first or second week in January".
This has emerged, he said, from "an analysis of the serological tests conducted on the (local) population".
Furthermore, tests have shown that 5% of the Vo' population has antibodies to COVID-19.
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