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{{Infobox pandemic
| name = COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
| map1 = COVID-19 Italy - Cases per capita.svg
| legend1 = Confirmed cases per 100k residents by province
| map2 = COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Italy (Density).svg
| legend2 = Number of confirmed cases by province<br>(as of 20 April 2020). 
{{legend|#FCEED3|50–99 confirmed}}
{{legend|#F2A88D|100–499 confirmed}}{{legend|#E36654|500–999 confirmed}}{{legend|#E5354B|1,000–4,999 confirmed}}{{legend|#87353F|5,000–9,999 confirmed}}{{legend|#630606|≥10,000 confirmed}}
| disease = [[COVID-19]]
| virus_strain = [[SARS-CoV-2]]
| location = Italy
| first_reported = [[Rome]]
| arrival_date = 30 January 2020<br/>({{Age in years, months, weeks and days|month1=01|day1=30|year1=2020|month2=|day2=|year2=}})<ref name="Corriere_20Jan"/>
| first_outbreak = [[Wuhan]], Hubei, China
| index_case = Unknown
| confirmed_cases = 222,104<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione"/>
| active_cases = 78,457<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione"/>
| suspected_cases = 
| severe_cases = 
| critical_cases = 893<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione"/>
| ventilator_cases = 
| recovery_cases = 112,541<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione"/> (incl. discharged)
| deaths = 31,106<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione"/>
| total_ili = 
| website = {{URL|www.salute.gov.it/nuovocoronavirus}}
}}

The ongoing [[COVID-19 pandemic]] was first confirmed to have spread to [[Italy]] on 30 January 2020, when two Chinese tourists in Rome tested positive for the virus.<ref name="Corriere_20Jan">{{cite web |title=Coronavirus: Primi due casi in Italia|url=https://www.corriere.it/cronache/20_gennaio_30/coronavirus-italia-corona-9d6dc436-4343-11ea-bdc8-faf1f56f19b7.shtml |website=Corriere della sera |access-date=31 January 2020 |date=31 January 2020|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy-idUSKBN20F0UI|title=First Italian dies of coronavirus as outbreak flares in north|date=21 February 2020|work=Reuters|access-date=6 March 2020}}</ref> 

==Clusters==
A large amount of cases was later found, starting with 16 confirmed cases in [[Lombardy]] on 21 February,<ref name="ThomReut_IT_16cluster_21Feb">{{cite news | last1= Anzolin | first1= Elisa | last2= Amante | first2= Angelo | title= Coronavirus outbreak grows in northern Italy, 16 cases reported in one day | date=21 February 2020 | agency=[[Thomson Reuters]] | url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/coronavirus-outbreak-grows-in-northern-italy-16-cases-reported-in-one-day-idUSKBN20F0UI |access-date=21 February 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200221225322/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-italy/coronavirus-outbreak-grows-in-northern-italy-16-cases-reported-in-one-day-idUSKBN20F0UI |archive-date= 21 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> and 60 additional cases and the first deaths on 22 February. By the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all regions of Italy.<ref>{{cite news |title=Coronavirus. Colpite tutte le regioni. La Protezione civile: ecco i numeri aggiornati |url=https://www.avvenire.it/attualita/pagine/coronavirus-aggiornamento-5-marzo-2020 |access-date=19 March 2020 |work=Avvenire |date=5 March 2020 |language=it}}</ref>

On 30 January, the Italian government stopped all flights to and from China and declared a state of emergency. In February, eleven cities in [[northern Italy]] were seen as the centres of the two main Italian infected areas and placed under [[quarantine]]. The majority of positive cases in other regions traced back to these two areas.<ref name=":8">{{cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/02/22/news/coronavirus_in_italia_aggiornamento_ora_per_ora-249241616/|title=Coronavirus in Italia: aggiornamento ora per ora|date=22 February 2020|website=la Repubblica|language=it|access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref> 

==Conte's response==
On 8 March 2020, Prime Minister [[Giuseppe Conte]] expanded the quarantine to all of Lombardy and 14 other northern provinces, and on the following day to all of Italy were placed on quarantine.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coronavirus: Northern Italy quarantines 16 million people |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238 |website=BBC |access-date=8 March 2020 |date=8 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news |title=All of Italy to be placed on coronavirus lockdown |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51810673 |access-date=9 March 2020 |work=BBC News |date=9 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-italy-sees-largest-daily-rise-in-deaths-and-confirmed-cases-11953192|title=Coronavirus: Italy deaths jump to 463, with 300 in just one region|publisher=Sky News|access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref> On 11 March 2020, Conte prohibited nearly all commercial activity except for supermarkets and pharmacies.<ref name=":12">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/merkel-coronavirus-germany/2020/03/11/e276252a-6399-11ea-8a8e-5c5336b32760_story.html|title=Italy ramps up coronavirus lockdown, Merkel warns virus could infect two-thirds of Germany|last1=Harlan|first1=Chico|last2=Morris|first2=Loveday|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=12 March 2020}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite news|last=Rome|first=Eric Sylvers in Milan and Giovanni Legorano in|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/italy-hardens-nationwide-quarantine-11583962093|title=Italy Hardens Nationwide Quarantine|date=12 March 2020|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=12 March 2020|issn=0099-9660}}</ref> 

On 21 March, the Italian government closed all non-essential businesses and industries, and stopped movement of people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Safi |first1=Michael |last2=Giuffrida |first2=Angela |last3=Farrer |first3=Martin |title=Coronavirus: Italy bans any movement inside country as toll nears 5,500 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/22/italian-pm-warns-of-worst-crisis-since-ww2-as-coronavirus-deaths-leap-by-almost-800 |access-date=22 March 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=22 March 2020}}</ref>

==Cases==
{{As of|2020|05|13}}, Italy has 78,457 active cases, one of the highest in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6|title=Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins |access-date=25 March 2020}}</ref>
Overall there have been 
222,104 confirmed cases and 
31,106 deaths (a rate of 509 <!--PLEASE KEEP UPDATED--> deaths per million population<ref>[https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries Coronavirus cases: Reported Cases and Deaths by Country]. [[Worldometer]].</ref>), while there have been  
112,541 recoveries or dismissals.<ref name="Min_Salute_Situazione">{{cite web|url=http://www.salute.gov.it/portale/nuovocoronavirus/dettaglioContenutiNuovoCoronavirus.jsp?lingua=italiano&id=5351&area=nuovoCoronavirus&menu=vuoto|title=Covid-19 – Situazione in Italia|website=salute.gov.it|publisher=Ministero della Salute|language=it|access-date=4 May 2020}}</ref> 

By 13 May, Italy had tested about 1,779,000 people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salute.gov.it/imgs/C_17_notizie_4623_0_file.pdf |title=Aggiornamento 27/04/2020 Ore 17.00 |date=27 April 2020 |access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref> Because of the limited number of tests performed, the real number of infected people in Italy, as in other countries, is seen to be higher than the official count.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Flaxman |first1=Seth |last2=Swapnil |first2=Mishra |last3=Gandy |first3=Axel |display-authors=etal |title=Report 13: Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries |date=30 March 2020 |pages=1–35 |doi=10.25561/77731 |url=https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/77731 |access-date=31 March 2020 |publisher=Imperial College London |journal= |s2cid=219108701 |archive-date=31 March 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200331063749/https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/handle/10044/1/77731 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lau |first1=Hien |last2=Khosrawipour |first2=Veria |last3=Kocbach |first3=Piotr |last4=Mikolajczyk |first4=Agata |last5=Ichii |first5=Hirohito |last6=Schubert |first6=Justyna |last7=Bania |first7=Jacek |last8=Khosrawipour |first8=Tanja |date=14 March 2020 |title=Internationally lost COVID-19 cases |journal=Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection  |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=454–458 |doi=10.1016/j.jmii.2020.03.013 |pmid=32205091 |pmc=7102572 |issn=1684-1182}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The total number of Italian coronavirus cases could be '10 times higher' than known tally, according to one official |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/24/italian-coronavirus-cases-seen-10-times-higher-than-official-tally.html |access-date=31 March 2020 |publisher=CNBC |date=24 March 2020 }}</ref> 

==Numbers==
On 19 March, Italy became the country with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus deaths; however, on 11 April, the United States topped Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/19/coronavirus-italy-now-has-more-covid-19-deaths-than-china/2873835001/|title=Grim milestone: Italy's coronavirus deaths surpass China's|first=Eric J. Lyman and Kim|last=Hjelmgaard|website=USA Today}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Coronavirus: US overtakes Italy as country with most deaths |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/11/us-coronavirus-death-toll |access-date=12 April 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=11 April 2020}}</ref>

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[[Category:2020s disasters in Italy]]
[[Category:COVID-19 pandemic by country|Italy]]