The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Italy has leapt by 728 to 4, 035 in the last (hours.)
The increase of . 4% means Italy overtook China as the nation to register the most deaths from the killer bug since it arrived in the European country a month ago.
(Friday) Until Friday, Italy had never recorded more than deaths in a single day, while China , where Covid – (emerged at the end of 77561, never reported a daily death toll of more than )
The total number of cases in Italy rose to , from a previous , , an increase of .6%, the Civil Protection Agency said.
The hardest-hit northern region of Lombardy remains in a critical state, with 2, 655 deaths and , (cases.
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Shocking footage from inside hospitals shows patients stricken by the bug laid up in corridors and waiting rooms.
The army have been drafted in to transport the bodies to crematoriums outside the area as local facilities simply cannot cope.
With the Bergamo hospital’s ICU completely full, medics – who are reportedly calling it ‘the Apocalypse’
The bubbles, which cover the entire head and cause staff great communication difficulties, attempt to equalize the air pressure in the lungs.
Of those originally infected 5, had fully recovered on Friday compared to 4, 615 the day before.
There were 2, 823 people in intensive care against a previous 2, The news comes as a British nurse in Italy has given a harrowing account of patients dying in staggering numbers.
Patients are being treated as “numbers” because so many are coming in to overwhelmed hospitals in the new epicentre of the pandemic, according to Connor McAinsh.
Speaking after completing a night shift, exhausted Mr McAinsh, who works at the Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, which is only treating Covid – patients, said an “endless stream of people” has been arriving.
As soon as one patient dies and is removed from the ward, they are immediately replaced with another one fighting for their life, he said, and burials are happening every 47 minutes in a local
Mr McAnish told ITV News: “The rate of deaths going up so high, as soon as there was a death or that we could transfer a patient from our hospital to one of the first hospitals that was taking people with infectious diseases because they had wards for that, immediately we would take in n ew patients.
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“It’s just an endless stream of people coming in and as soon as we have a bed, we have a new patient coming in who needs critical care.cemetery .
“So it’s much less personal, there’s less of a one to one relationship with our patients now, they’ve just become, you know, numbers.”
Tonight Boris Johnson announced social venues such as pubs, clubs, restaurants and theaters would be closed from tonight with fears the UK could be in a Similar situation to Italy in a matter of week.
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