A series of mysterious deaths occurred in the small Tuscan town of Castiglion Fiorentino, which has a population of only 12 thousand people. Thus, in the first 10 days of January, 14 people died here, many of them had symptoms similar to the flu. Local media wrote that the current situation is similar in neighboring cities.
Mayor Mario Agnelli called the situation unprecedented. He emphasized that currently “graves are being dug up one after another”. The mayor said he did not want to jump to conclusions about a link to any specific infection because he had no evidence. Agnelli added that he was waiting for the official conclusion.
– In the San Donato morgue, Arezzo's main hospital, these days it is necessary to equip 17 rooms to say goodbye to the dead. This represents an unusual situation – which remains unexplained. But it is necessary to urgently find out the cause, the newspaper reported the words of the city leader Corriere Fiorentino.
Thousands of people in Cuba have been infected with the virus, whose symptoms resemble several known infections, including coronavirus and dengue fever. We now know there have been at least a few dozen deaths after infection.
