According to The Guardian, Italy’s large elderly population poses a challenge in slowing the number of coronavirus deaths in the worst affected country in Europe.

“Italy is a country of old people,” said Prof Massimo Galli, the director of infectious diseases at Sacco hospital in Milan.

“The elderly with previous pathologies are notoriously numerous here. I think this could explain why we are seeing more serious cases of coronavirus here, which I repeat, in the vast majority of cases start mildly and cause few problems, especially in young people and certainly in children," he said.

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