Health workers wearing protective gears keep swabs in tubes taken from drivers, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Giugliano in Campania, Italy, April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca
PADUA, Italy (Reuters) - Authorities in northern Italy have begun testing health workers for antibodies that may help identify individuals with immunity to the coronavirus as they look for ways to ease the lockdown imposed a month ago to contain the epidemic.
On Monday, the northeastern region of Veneto, which saw one of Italy's earliest outbreaks of the disease in February, started blood tests on health workers, following neighbouring Emilia Romagna, which began testing last week.
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