The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was confirmed to have spread to Brazil on 25 February 2020,[3] after a 61-year-old man from São Paulo who had returned from Lombardy, Italy tested positive for the virus. Since then, as of 22 March 2020, 6,836 cases were confirmed in the country, causing 241 deaths.[2] Local transmission has been reported in at least seven states[citation needed], and the pandemic has triggered a variety of responses from federal, state and local governments, while also impacting politics, education and the economy.