Corona-hit Italy suffering due to improved ties with China?

New Delhi/Rome, March 20 (IANS) With more than 3,400 people dead and 41,000 infected, Italy is the worst-hit by Wuhan-originated coronavirus for multiple reasons. Though University of Oxford in a latest paper published in Demographic Science has attributed the high rate of coronavirus casualties in Italy to its second-oldest population and their inter-mingling with youth, it does not explain how Japan with the largest oldest population has been able to contain the disease. An Italian journalist, Francesca Marino believes that Italy understood the problem "too late". "We discovered the first patient only when the virus had already...