ITALY has overtaken China for the number of coronavirus deaths as 427 more die from the disease. The country has now seen 3,405 people die from the coronavirus, which began in the Chinese city of W…
ITALY has overtaken China for the number of coronavirus deaths as 427 more die from the disease.
The country has now seen 3,405 people die from the coronavirus, which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan.The morgue of Ponte San Pietro Hospital in the Province of Bergamo, the area worst hit by the coronavirus13The grim news comes as troops have begun removing bodies from a coronavirus-hit city which can no longer cope with the numbers dying.
Army vehicles have been brought in to transport dozens of coffins from Bergamo to cities and towns across the north of Italy.since the start of the outbreak. “The crematorium of Bergamo, working at full capacity, 24 hours a day, can cremate 25 dead”, said a spokesperson for the local authority.The dead are now being taken to crematoria in Modena, Acqui Terme, Domodossola, Parma and Piacenza.Luigi Avantaggiato 2019Cemetery workers and funeral agency workers in protective masks transport a coffin in BergamoBrother Marco Bergamelli, a priest at All Saints church in Bergamo, told how the church could not cope with the demand.
“Unfortunately, we don’t know where to put them ,” Bergamelli said. “It takes time and the dead are many.”“It’s as if you were asking what to do if an atomic bomb explodes,” Dr Antonio Pesenti, the head of Lombardy’s intensive crisis care unit, told the
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