When
engineering student Sara Del Giudice returned home to Naples in late
August from a short vacation with her boyfriend, instead of embracing
her siblings and parents, she shut herself in her room.
"We're
a close family that hugs and kisses all the time, but I had a slight
headache, a cough and achiness, and I just thought, better safe than
sorry," said Del Giudice, 23.
Several
days later, she and her boyfriend tested positive for COVID-19. Despite
both having negative antibody tests before their holiday on the island
of Ischia, in the Gulf of Naples, her boyfriend was coming from
Sardinia, where clusters of partying young people spread the virus with
alacrity.
"Even though I thought was being cautious. I was too casual," she said. "I should have known better."
While
Del Giudice is one of thousands of young Europeans who caught the novel
coronavirus this summer, Italy has been far more successful than its
neighbours at keeping them from passing it on.
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1st in Europe to be devastated by COVID-19, Italy redoubled its efforts, and they're now paying off | CBC News
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