The consequences of the Corona pandemic continue to be most felt in Italy. The country now even surpasses China in deaths.
- The Corona eruption has Italy especially hit.
- The number of official deaths from the Lung disease Covid-19* is now more than 3000 and higher than in any other country.
- The regions in the north of the country are particularly affected.
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Update from March 20, 6.55 p.m .: Dramatic proportions because of corona: Not only in the Lombardybut in whole Italy takes the death toll from that Corona virus unabated to.
Corona Italy: The highest number of coronavirus victims in one day
Specifically: According to the authorities, 627 more people died from the consequences of the coronavirus within 24 hours. So far, this is the highest number of victims within a day, as the civil defense said on Friday.
Corona crisis in Italy: doctors and nurses fight for the lives of patients in Brescia.
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As of Friday evening, more than 4,000 people in Italy have so far succumbed to Corona – more than in any other country in the world. The number of confirmed infections is now over 47,000, and only 6,000 additional cases were reported on one day. 36 percent of the corona fatalities worldwide are now to be mourned in Italy, in the past three days alone 1,500 – mostly old – people have died of the insidious lung disease.
Despite drastic measures, the government in Rome has so far failed to get the situation under control. Now she is considering other restrictions, such as banning all outdoor activities.
Corona Italy: Hundreds more deaths only in the Lombardy region
Update from March 20, 6.20 p.m .: The death toll that the Corona virus in Italy demands increases dramatically.
Like the news agency Reuters are reported to be particularly hard hit by the pandemic Lombardy within 24 hours another 380 people of the insidious Lung disease COVID-19 shoot.
Coronavirus: soldiers build a field hospital in Cremona, Italy.
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As the image writes, as of Friday afternoon, so far about 2550 people in the northern Italian region corona died.
The fight against the virus continues unabated. In the city of Cremona, with a population of 70,000, soldiers of the Italian army have set up a field hospital for the treatment of serious cases.
Italy in the corona crisis: 300 children tested positive for corona virus
Update from March 20, 10:06 a.m .: In the course of Coronavirus pandemic are in Italy so far around 300 children tested positive for the pathogen been. “So far, however, there have been no deaths and no severe cases in children,” said Alberto Villani, President of the Italian Pediatric Association, at a civil defense press conference in Rome. “That should reassure many parents and grandparents. The corona virus per se currently appears no problem for children to be. ”In total there are tens of thousands of infected people and thousands of deaths in Italy.
Update from March 19, 6:33 p.m .: The situation in Italy is getting worse. The country has been in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic more deaths than China reported and is the country in the world with the most officially reported deaths. So far 3,405 people diedItalian civil defense said in Rome on Thursday.
China still complains of new deaths every day. According to official data, eight more were killed on Thursday, bringing the Total number of victims rose to 3,245 cases. A total of 80,928 infected people were registered in mainland China, more than 66,000 of whom have recovered. In Italy, the number of people infected is now over 41,000. The day before, there were around 35,700.
Italy has imposed drastic measures in the past. These should now also be extended. School closures and curfews were originally scheduled until April 3, but the government is expected to expand them soon.
Corona crisis in Italy: military removes corpses from Bergamo
Rome – Photos that get under your skin. Military trucks stand in front of a cemetery in the center of Bergamo (Lombardy) to pick up coffins containing Corona fatalities. The crematoriums are overloaded. The military is said to transport the coffins to other crematoriums in other Italian regions, reports the Italian news agency ansa.it.
The Mortuary in Bergamo is crowded, writes the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Coffins of victims of the Corona virus can no longer be included. The furnace of the crematorium has been in operation for 24 hours and has now reached the limit of its capacity. There is no place in the cemeteries in Bergamo.
In order to relieve the mortuary of the cemetery, the coffins of the deceased were kept in the church of Ognissanti. Then on Wednesday there was a solution to this emergency: the use of Military vehicles. Last night the military had to take the bodies to other regions for cremation.
Corona dead in Italy – pictures that hurt incredibly
The recordings of the military convoy that take coronavirus patients who have died from Bergamo to other provinces are staggering.
In social networks, people react with dismay to the pictures. A user shared a video on Twitter to shake Italians.
“They had to call the army to load coffins and trucks with coffins to take them to crematoriums outside the region,” the user writes. And further: “Before you complain about the lockdown extension, watch the video.”
A #Bergamo hanno dovuto chiamare l’esercito per caricare camion e camion di bare da destinare a crematori fuori regione. Prima di lamentarvi della proroga del #lockdown riguardatevi sto video in loop.#coronavirusitalia pic.twitter.com/ofR1raGVTb
– Alessandro Zanoni (@ AlexZan87) March 19, 2020
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“An image that hurts incredibly. In Bergamo, the coffins of 70 dead are driven out of the city by military convoy because the crematoriums are overcrowded. Survivors cannot say goodbye. This photo is a cut, the situation is serious, ”tweeted another user, using the hashtags # COVID19 and #StayAtHome.
A picture that hurts incredibly. In #Bergamo the coffins of 70 dead are driven out of the city by military convoy because the crematoriums are overcrowded. Survivors cannot say goodbye. This photo is a cut, the situation is serious. # COVID19 #StayAtHome pic.twitter.com/y7T03KOHjs
– Gabriel Rinaldi (@ grinaldi97) March 18, 2020
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Corona crisis video: Italy’s hospitals are at the limit
Corona crisis in Italy:
The Corona virus has public life in Italy* largely closed: shops, bars and schools are closed, the borders are closed. The number of infected people is increasing. Doctors are fighting on all fronts.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been warning that the Corona virus in Germany. Schools and daycare centers are closed, the borders are tight. The federal government is trying to slow the spread of the virus.
Europe is now the epicenter of the Covid 19 pandemic*. Spain, France and Germany are in a state of emergency. Will this soon threaten in Africa? The WHO issues a dramatic warning.
There is more interactive on the Internet Corona virus cards* which show the spread of the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 in real time.
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