I clicked link in story Q posted. Click pic takes you here. This description:

"APTOPIX Virus Outbreak Italy

In this photograph taken from behind a window, doctors work on Covid-19 patients in the intensive care unit of San Matteo Hospital, in Pavia, northern Italy, Thursday, March 26, 2020. The San Matteo hospital is where Patient 1, a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia, was kept since he tested positive for Covid-19 on Feb. 21 and opened Italy’s health care crisis. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)"

What is Aptopix?

This talks about “Patient 1” a 38-year-old Unilever worker named Mattia. He tested positive Feb. 21 and was in the hospital in Pavia until March 26, 2020.

I didn’t realize each country had their own “Patient 1.” How did they know this was theirs?

Dig Photographer: Claudio Furlan.