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Can Italy's Coronavirus Crackdown Actually Work?
Rome has no choice but to try to contain a virus that has killed so many. But a frightening aspect of the flareup is that no one is sure where it came from.
Worrying times.
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If you looked at a table with the number of confirmed coronavirus infections by country, you’d think Italy was in Asia.
The southern European country now has more than 140 registered cases, the third most in the world, after China and South Korea. Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong all have less. Other large European countries, such as Germany, France and the UK, only have a small fraction of the infections.