ROME, March 8 (Xinhua) -- For the second time in two days, the head of a major Italian region revealed he has been infected with the coronavirus.
Alberto Cirio, president of the northern Italian region of Piedmont, which includes Italy's main industrial hub of Turin, made the announcement Sunday.
A day earlier, Nicola Zingaretti, president of the region of Lazio -- the region that includes the Italian capital of Rome -- revealed he had been infected.
Cirio said his symptoms from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, were mild.
"I am infected but I am fine," Cirio said via a video posted to social media sites, the same method Zingaretti used to announce he had been infected.
"I will continue to work without interruption from afar," he said.
The announcement followed a decree from the government to lock down large swaths of northern Italy, impacting around 16 million residents there.
