Yahoo News
Why did coronavirus hit hard in Italy and Spain? Some blame a lack of social distancing — and a lot of social kissing.
When Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, a country now in lockdown with over 17,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, took the dais in Parliament in Madrid on Wednesday to announce a $220 billion package to help his country’s tourism-powered economy, warning that “the worst is yet to come,” Micol Maria de Vincenti was appalled. “When the leader of Spain is breaking his own quarantine, it’s not setting a good example.” De Vincenti was not the only one taken aback at the seeming lack of urgency about the coronavirus in Spain, where cases began climbing three weeks ago, and where concepts like social distancing didn’t enter the discussion until this week.
