This year, in fact, many countries are affected by the epidemic, and Italy is the most serious epidemic in the European region of a country, the current confirmed cases in Italy has exceeded 2,000 cases, the number of deaths has reached 24 cases. Italian relevant departments responsible personnel said that if the future of the epidemic in Italy continues to spread, then many hospitals in Italy will face a serious challenge, that is, with the increasing number of patients, many hospitals are now overcrowded.
In fact, not only the Italian hospitals will accept certain challenges, now many medical supplies in Italy is also relatively scarce, because we all know that China as a manufacturing country, many masks are actually produced by China and exported, and China this time by the impact of the epidemic is the biggest, so now the number of China's exports of masks will be greatly reduced, because now the The country itself is particularly short of these medical supplies. After China reduces its exports, the number of medical supplies for these European countries will be drastically reduced, which is also a big challenge for Italy.
Of course the biggest impact of this epidemic on Italy, that is certainly the economy. Milan, the fashion capital, has only 20% of its previous year's hotel bookings at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020, which is roughly a 70% drop compared to the number at the same time last year, and hotel bookings on the Rome side have been canceled by about 50%. On top of that, Italy's tourism industry has actually taken a big hit. After the full-blown outbreak, no one is willing to travel to Italy at all, and although the local government is trying its best to encourage foreigners to travel, it's not working well.
It is reported that Florence, Italy, is expected to open its art museums for free for a week, and the reason for doing so is actually to attract more people to travel to the region, because the tourism industry in Italy is the country's economic pillar. Of course, I think the primary goal of Italy should be to control the epidemic, which is the most important thing.