do you have sources for that ? i'm extremely interested in understanding why italy seems to be suffering that much compared to other countries. If it's just a matter of being the first, or if it's also something specific to them.
In the North (and particularly in Lombardy) the situation is dramatic, in the center and in the south it is not (yet) that bad.
Basically the lock-down (started on national level on the 10 th of March) seemingly - and for the moment - managed to work to reduce the spread of the infection in other regions.
The previous lock-down (limited to some cities/provinces of the north) was only a couple days before and evidently too late to be effective.
