Italy: Coronavirus Death Toll Jumps 25 Percent; Exceeds 1,800
In the last 24 hours, 368 people have died in
Italy from the coronavirus, bringing the nation’s death toll to 1,809
from 1,441 a day earlier — a 25 percent increase and the highest daily
death toll Italy has seen yet.
In just one day, Italy has suffered an additional 368 deaths, as well as an additional 3,590 confirmed cases of the virus nationwide — the highest daily increase that the nation as seen thus far.
As Italy’s coronavirus death toll and confirmed cases skyrocket, the Italian government scrambles to come up with enough ventilators and ICU beds for patients in overcrowded hospitals, while Italian doctors say they have been forced to ration services for older, sicker patients in order to prioritize younger patients who are more likely to be saved from the virus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Bergamo — a city just northeast of Milan, in the nation’s worst-infected Lombardy region — has said that coronavirus patients who cannot be treated “are left to die.”
On Saturday, an Italian man shared a video of himself flipping through a Bergamo newspaper to show the daily obituaries of those who have died from the virus in the city, putting Italy’s coronavirus death toll into a harrowing perspective.
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Source:
Breitbart
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