Italy was the first country in the Western world to face an outbreak of Coronavirus. 

 

On March 10, 2020, after a series of inconsistent and derisory statements by government officials and members of the scientific community regarding a possible threat posed by the novel coronavirus from China, Italy entered lockdown, leaving its citizen and the rest of Europe under general astonishment and disbelief.

Italy would soon become a national laboratory, setting the guidelines for the later global health response that would follow.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the government led by Giuseppe Conte has struggled to meet the needs of a country that is largely based on the restaurant and tourism industry and to find a formula to prevent the gradual economic collapse of the country.