The Champions League tie between Atalanta and Valencia last month accelerated the spread of the coronavirus in Lombardy, Italian authorities fear.
The Bergamo club staged the first leg of the quarter-final in Milan's San Siro Stadium on February 19 – two days before the first official cases of Covid-19 in Italy.
There were 45,792 fans at the match including 2,500 Spanish fans. Around 35,000 Atalanta fans made the 35-mile journey from Bergamo to Milan by train, car and coach.
Since then, Lombardy and Valencia have become European coronavirus hotspots and the Champions League match has been labelled “Match Zero” after the search for “Patient Zero” who brought the virus to Italy. “I think that the pandemic had started before in the
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