Table 2.
Regional delays (in days).
| Epidemic delays across Italian Regions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lombardia | 0.0 | Molise | 10.6 |
| Emilia Romagna | 3.1 | Umbria | 11.8 |
| Marche | 4.3 | Abruzzo | 13.1 |
| Veneto | 5.7 | Lazio | 14.5 |
| Valle d’Aosta | 6.4 | Campania | 15.0 |
| P.A. Trento | 6.6 | Puglia | 15.7 |
| P.A. Bolzano | 8.0 | Sardegna | 16.2 |
| Liguria | 8.1 | Sicilia | 16.6 |
| Friuli Venezia Giulia | 8.9 | Calabria | 17.2 |
| Piemonte | 9.0 | Basilicata | 19.2 |
| Toscana | 10.4 | ||
The delay times are calculated by minimising the distance among the Regional counts of detected infections normalised by the population of the Region. Since Lombardy has been selected as the reference curve (hence, its delay is 0), the other Regions’ delays are calculated with respect to it.