CNN map on Coronavirus and Italy, Di Maio: distorts reality

In the last few hours controversy has broken out (including political) for a map aired by CNN that indicates Italy as the center of the coronavirus outbreak (THE SPECIAL – THE UPDATES), from which a series of direct arrows start in all countries in which the infection was brought. A map that has gone around the web and that Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio did not like, according to which he “distorts reality” (THINGS TO KNOW – DIFFUSION IN A MAP – NUMBERS OF CIVIL PROTECTION).

The CNN map

“Coronavirus cases linked to Italy”, is the title that appeared in superimposed and reproposed on social media with indignant messages, which attack the US broadcaster for the map in which Italy is indicated as the starting point for contagion cases throughout the world (ADVICE OF THE MINISTRY FOR PREVENTION).

Di Maio: CNN on Italy distorts reality

With a post on Facebook, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio replied: “CNN shows a map in which Italy appears to be the origin of the coronavirus outbreak. This is a distorted view of reality. The point, however, is it is not CNN, this is just an example, because other international media are also painting Italy in the wrong way. The misinformation of some newspapers is fighting not with opinions, but with numerical data: Italy it is the nation that is handling this emergency more rigorously, which, as we know, has developed in China. ”

The anger of the minister

“I wonder – continues Di Maio – what the intent is. To discriminate against a country that has public health and that is managing better, despite decades of cuts, a complex and emergency situation in some areas? We believe that checking the health of people doing more tampons is serious. We believe that taking restrictive measures to protect the health of our citizens is sacrosanct. We also believe that hunting for greasers is something to be left to the Middle Ages. We go ahead with rigor and we work 24 hours to bring our country, as soon as possible, to normal. Everyone is invited to collaborate for this goal, all over the world: politicians, institutions and the mass media “, concludes the owner of the Farnesina.

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