(Foto: Miguel Medina/AFP). “We believe this opportunity is beneficial not only for Atalanta but also all of Italian football as it is inspired by important values ​​such as the sense of hospitality, respect and ‘fair play’.” "It's a city of 120,000 people and that day (40,000) went to the San Siro," the Argentine said. Pemain Atalanta Mattia Caldara (kiri) berebut bola udara dengan pemain AC Milan Zlatan Ibrahimovic pada pertandingan Serie A di Stadion San Siro, Milan, Italia, Jumat (24/7/2020). Questo nonostante, nei giorni scorsi, […] "We were mid-February so we didn't have the circumstances of what was happening," Bergamo Mayor Giorgio Gori said this week during a live Facebook chat with the Foreign Press Association in Rome. "Look at what's happening in China, where players are testing positive for the coronavirus now - despite all the safety rules and precautions being taken," Tommasi told the AP, referring to a recent positive test for former Manchester United midfielder Marouane Fellaini with Chinese club Shandong Lunen.Fellaini's positive test was alarming because, while the outbreak began spreading in China, the virus has reportedly been receding there. It was the biggest football game in Atalanta's history and a third of Bergamo's population made the short trip to Milan's famed San Siro Stadium.Nearly 2,500 fans of visiting Spanish club Valencia also traveled to that Champions League match.More than a month later, experts are pointing to the February 19 game as one of the biggest reasons why Bergamo has become one of the epicenters of the coronavirus pandemic - a "biological bomb" was the way one respiratory specialist put it - and why 35% of Valencia's team became infected.The match, which local media have dubbed "Game Zero," was held two days before the first case of locally transmitted COVID-19 was confirmed in Italy. Because if one team is stuck, it blocks the entire system. El argentino Papu Gomez será titular en Atalanta para visitar a Milan en San Siro, por la Fecha 36 de la Serie A de Italia. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) "Valencia defender Ezequiel Garay was the first Spanish league player to test positive for COVID-19. To give you an idea, my wife took three hours to get to Milan, when that trip normally takes 40 minutes. The high number of positives at Valencia makes you wonder. Jose Luis Palomino's backpass should have found a team-mate but was instead picked off by substitute Denis Cheryshev who struck a low shot to reduce the deficit.Substitution, Atalanta. Atalanta captain Alejandro “Papu” Gómez told Argentine daily Olé it was “terrible” to have played that game. Atalanta captain Alejandro “Papu” Gómez told Argentine daily Olé it was “terrible” to have played that game. Visit: As is possible that so many Bergamaschi that night got together in houses, bars to watch the match and did the same. "Other squads tested everyone. Atalanta-Valencia, la possibile partita zero per spiegare il “caso Bergamo” e il boom di contagi. In the meantime, both the Bergamo team and Valencia are left wondering about the unforeseen effects of their match in February.Copyright © 2020 Living Media India Limited. "It was a historic match for Atalanta, something unique. Atalanta will play their Champions League home games at San Siro this season after Milan gave their seal of approval. "It's certainly an analysis that can be made," Brusaferro said.By last week, Bergamo's cemetery became so overwhelmed by the number of dead that military trucks began transporting bodies to a neighboring region for cremation.Italy remained the European country with the most cases, nearly 70,000, and with almost 7,000 deaths - the most worldwide and more than twice as many as China.Spain is the next country in Europe with the most cases, nearly 48,000, and it has surpassed China in the number of deaths with more than 3,400.More than 435,000 people worldwide have been infected and the number of dead closed in on 20,000, according to the running count kept by Johns Hopkins University. For reprint rights: Syndications TodayCopyright © 2020 Living Media India Limited. "It's a city of 120,000 people and that day (40,000) went to the San Siro," the Argentine said.


The Valencia region had more than 2,600 people infected.Luca Lorini, the head of the intensive care unit at the Pope John XXIII hospital in Bergamo, currently has 88 patients under his care with the coronavirus; not including many more in other parts of the hospital.