Lombardy's regional governor, Attilio Fontana, has reportedly quarantined himself after his government councilor for economic development was found to be carrying the virus. All members of the local government will now be required to be tested for the illness. Necessary procedures keeping with established protocols will be activated, depending on the results, the regional government said in a statement.Russia also saw its first coronavirus case on home soil, from a Russian who caught it in Italy:
Italy is among several European states struggling to contain the virus. As of Monday, the country has confirmed 1,694 cases, with the death toll at 34, according to reports. An estimated 90 percent of the 1,694 cases in Italy are concentrated in the northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia Romagna.
The case concerns a young Russian citizen who fell sick on vacation in Italy. He flew back to Russia on February 23, and a few days later went to a clinic in Moscow Region with symptoms of an acute respiratory viral infection, which was initially believed to be SARS. Subsequently, he was hospitalized in an infectious diseases hospital. His situation is currently described as stable.In response, Russian medical authorities have hospitalized and quarantined several people who have been in contact with the man:
The man is the fourth known Russian national to be infected, but the first inside the country. Two Chinese citizens diagnosed in Siberia in February have since recovered and been discharged. Three Russians fell ill with Covid-19 on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan, and were later evacuated. Also on Monday, it was reported that a foreign citizen who transited through a Moscow airport from Iran to China, on an Aeroflot flight, had been found to have the disease.
Within 24 hours of the first signs on Friday that the man might be infected, a full list of his recent contacts was established, including relatives, friends, acquaintances and the passengers who were on the same flight from Italy as him, Sobyanin said in a statement. "Six relatives and five acquaintances of the patient were hospitalized. From the passengers of the flight [from Italy], 13 people were hospitalized, 83 people were quarantined."
The president also attended a memorial service in memory of the paratroopers at the local St. George's church and met with their relatives.They stood in the way of hundreds of militants and entered their last battle as true heroes, staying true to the best traditions of their brothers-in-arms that are held dear by all generations of airborne troops.
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Three employees of the Turkish branch of Sputnik News, whose apartments were attacked by Turkish nationalists on Saturday night, have been missing since going to file complaints about the incident to Turkish police.Following denials by Turkish police of the whereabouts of these journalists, they were eventually found at Ankara's hall of justice where they were questioned by prosecutors and found to not be involved in any wrongdoing. Turkish media indicated that the reason behind the arrests was an article focused on the Turkish province of Hatay, which has long been disputed by Syria.
"We have not been able to contact our employees in Ankara for nine hours now," Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and Sputnik, said in a tweet on Sunday morning.
Moscow said the incident and the suspected detention of the victims by the police constitute a gross attack on the freedom of journalists. "We call on the Turkish authorities to intervene, provide safety to employees of the Russian media and ensure that all circumstances are clarified," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.The OSCE condemned the harassment of Russian agency journalists in Turkey.
Sputnik parent organization Rossiya Segodnya appealed to the UN, OSCE, and UNESCO to draw their attention to the case.RT provides more detail on the incident:
Harlem Desir, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media, condemned the harassment and suspected detention. "I urge the authorities to ensure the safety of foreign correspondents," he tweeted.
Shortly after their release, Mahir Boztepe, the head of Sputnik's Turkish branch, was freed from police custody as well. The journalist was briefly detained amid searches of Sputnik's Istanbul office.
The Sputnik employees were released shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a phone call with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu. The top diplomat urged Ankara to "swiftly resolve" the situation with the journalists and called upon the authorities to ensure their safety.
The harassment of the Sputnik journalists has been condemned by seven Turkish journalist associations, as well as by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Harlem Desir, the OSCE representative on freedom of the media, urged Ankara to "ensure the safety of foreign correspondents," and raised concerns over reports linking the detention to a Sputnik article.
Comment: China is currently the linch-pin of most of the world's manufacturing industries. Any disruption in the current just-in-time models of delivery will have serious knock-on effects.