Italy's death rate at record high as hospitals at the coronavirus epicenter struggle
Medical facilities in Lombardy will "soon" be unable to help new coronavirus cases, the region's Governor Attilio Fontana said Wednesday, as he urged everyone to stay at home.The government is reportedly considering extending a national lockdown beyond April 3.
A medical worker wearing a face mask talks on her mobile phone inside the new coronavirus intensive care unit of the Brescia Poliambulanza hospital, Lombardy, on March 17, 2020.Hospitals in Italy's Lombardy, the epicenter of the country's coronvirus outbreak, are reaching the point where they may not be able to treat any new cases of the virus, as Italy's death toll rises at a record rate.
Medical facilities in Lombardy will "soon" be unable to help new coronavirus cases, the region's Governor Attilio Fontana said Wednesday, as he urged everyone to stay at home. "Unfortunately the numbers of the contagion are not falling, they continue to be high," he said. "We will soon be unable to give a response to those who fall ill," news agency ANSA reported. "Stay at home: if you don't understand that we'll have to be more aggressive."
Lombardy, a wealthy region in northern Italy where the country's financial hub Milan is located, is where Italy's coronavirus epidemic started. It remains the region worst affected by the virus, by far. There are now 12,266 positive cases in Lombardy, followed by 3,915 cases in Emilia-Romagna and 2,953 in Veneto, data from
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