The Italian town of Codogno has been placed on lockdown in an attempt to limit the spread of the virusA number of football matches in Italy have been postponed over fears of the spread of coronavirus. A woman from the northern region of Lombardy is the second person in Italy to die from the virus in the past 24 hours. Serie D matches and a number of amateur and youth games in the Lombardy and Veneto regions are also called off. Several towns in the Lombardy region have been placed on lockdown, with schools and offices closed and residents urged to stay away from accident and emergency departments. The new virus, which originated last year in the Hubei province in China, causes a respiratory disease called Covid-19.

Source: BBC February 22, 2020 15:22 UTC