The term Covid-19 refers to the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, a virus that isn’t born in a laboratory, but in nature. Indeed, this new coronavirus, that comes from an Asian species of bat, evolved up to be able to infect the human being, causing main sites of disease. The first main site took place in December 2019 in Wuhan, a Chinese city in the region of Hubei. Unfortunately, the situation was underestimated, in fact the Chinese government decided to let the tragic situation be known too late, so the virus reached Europe first, in particular Italy, and then all the continents. The World Health Organization, for this reason, decided to declare the global pandemic on 11 March 2020. Italy was intensely affected by coronavirus. Our country faced a lot of difficult moments from the discovery of the first two cases of coronavirus in Italy, all sectors were stopped, schools were closed, together with shops, bars, restaurants, churches, offices and all the places in which were created groups. (Italian citizens were in quarantine from the 9^th of March and just few days ago, the 4^th of March, we started the phase 2, in which it is allowed to go out, but just to visit relatives or to play sports, as long as people don’t get out of the region and don’t create groups. Solidarity is the keyword in this difficult moment for Italy.)

Giorgio Armani was among the first to donate to hospitals in our country. Now a new gesture of generosity comes from the great Italian designer: he will convert fashion production into lab coats for healthcare workers committed to coping with the spread of coronavirus. Like him, many other companies in the fashion industry have taken the field to help healthcare. (With a note, the Armani group announced that it will convert all its Italian production plants to make disposable coats for the individual protection of health workers who are fighting against covid 19. Armani has already donated 2 million euros, first in favour of the Civil Protection and of some hospitals such as Luigi Sacco, San Raffaele, the Cancer Institute of Milan and Spallanzani in Rome. )

(The Made in Italy brand continues to respond to the country’s Covid-19 emergency with generosity and ingenuity, donating enormous sums of cash and putting its factories at the disposal of the national effort. In addition, the digital entrepreneur Chiara Ferragni and her husband Fedez, are doing their part to fight the coronavirus crisis.)
They donated 100 thousand euros and launched a fundraising campaign thanks to which an additional intensive care unit was set up at the San Raffaele hospital. More than 4.4 million euros have been raised so far thanks to the generosity of over 202 thousand people. Anyone can also participate with a minimum donation of 5 euros through the gofundme online platform. The initiative carried out with the collaboration of Prof. Alberto Zangrillo, head of cardiovascular intensive care and general of San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, will support the intensive care, a super-specialist environment for the seriously ill.