What other nations can learn from Italy during coronavirus pandemic

The proportion of the population older than 65 years is 9.5 per cent in Alaska as compared with 19.1 per cent in Florida and 23.1 per cent in Italy, they explained.

After analysing data on COVID-19 cases in Italy, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic, researchers have suggested measures that other governments across the world can take to contain the transmission of the novel coronavirus.

According to the analysis, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the number of cases and deaths in Italy cannot be explained simply because of the epidemic starting in the country earlier compared with other countries besides China.

While some factors may be immutable such as the age structure of the population, the researchers, including those from Stanford University in the