Policeman, Fireman Test Positive for Coronavirus in Rome

A tourist visits Milan's Duomo cathedral, as it reopened to the public for the first time since the coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy, in Milan, Italy, on March 2, 2020. Yara Nardi/Reuters

A policeman and a fireman based in Rome have tested positive for the new coronavirus, authorities said, raising the risk of the virus spreading in the Italian capital.

Around 90 percent of the 1,694 cases reported in Italy up to March 1 are concentrated in the wealthy northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia Romagna.