Italian super-spreader gives Corona virus to wife, 2 doctors, 3 bar-goers, & a 77 yr-old

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The Italian super-spreader at the heart of Europe's coronavirus crisis infected his pregnant wife, two doctors, an elderly woman who died from the illness and at least nine others when medics failed to test him.

The 38-year-old man, known only as Mattia, went to hospital in Codogno, northern Italy, three times with flu-like symptoms before doctors finally screened and diagnosed him with the killer virus.

He was prescribed anti-flu medication and sent home to infect countless others because medics presumed he couldn't have the illness as he had not been to China.

The marathon runner first complained of feeling unwell on February 14 and was not diagnosed until February 20, six days later, when he developed pneumonia.

In that time he passed it onto at least 13 people, including his wife Valentina, a friend he went jogging with, two doctors, his GP, three elderly pubgoers and a 77-year-old woman who was killed by the disease.

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