Pandemia has “traveled” on transport tools

In Italy at least 200,000 hospital stays were avoided in March, thanks to restrictions on public movement. The measures imposed by the government reduced the infection by 45%. The study is published in the American Academy of Sciences magazine, conducted by Italian scholars from the Polytechnic of Milan, Venice's Cà Foscari University, the University of Cyril, the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (Epfl) and the University of Padova.

Researchers took Italy's case by analyzing the temporary evolution of the virus in local populations. They used official data to figure out how much of the government's current infection has decreased.

“20 000 hospital stays have been averted from government restrictions”, says Marino Gatto, professor of ecology in Milan Polytechnic and the first author of the study.