Just visit Milan if you can get a flight.
As for Beast's question about why it took off in Italy - I did read that a hospital in the region failed to follow procedure - someone turned up with a fever and instead of being tested, sat in a waiting room with all the other A&E cases and was assumed to have influenza so had ample time to infect others, was not tested for COVID-19 and it spread from there - this is from CNN:
"Italian authorities were on the defensive Tuesday as they faced tough questions over the country's handling of the novel coronavirus, which is rapidly spreading across the country's northern regions.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has tried to allay fears that the central government is unable to contain the virus, after he was forced to admit that a hospital in the northern town of Codogno had mishandled the region's first coronavirus case and
had contributed to the deadly virus' spread. According to Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, a 38-year-old man with coronavirus symptoms had to wait 36 hours at a hospital in Lombardy before he was tested for the virus, during which he had contact with hospital staff and visiting friends and family.
The man, identified only as Mattia, was admitted to the emergency room in Codogno, Lombardy, early on February 19 with respiratory problems, reported the Corriere della Serra and CNN.
Mattia was tested at around 4 p.m. on February 20 — 36 hours after being admitted — and at 9 p.m. the infection was diagnosed, according to Corriere della Sera. The delay in testing was because he wasn't recently returned from China, the newspaper said."
Originally Posted by: Maunder Minimum