A handout photo, according to the source taken in February, shows a businessman Luca Zhou, 56, wearing a face mask on the streets of Prato. Maurizio Ciampolini/Handout via REUTERS

FLORENCE: In the storm of infection and death sweeping Italy, one big community stands out to health officials as remarkably unscathed - the 50,000 ethnic Chinese who live in the town of Prato.