Italy rushes new doctors into service as death toll rises above 2,500
Passengers and commuters on the subway in the late afternoon, rush hour, during the blockade implemented due to the coronavirus emergency in Milan, Italy. The health service is struggling to cope with the coronavirus. – EPA pic, March 18, 2020.
ITALY will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the coronavirus, which claimed another 345 lives. The death toll rose to 2,503 over the past 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the total number of confirmed cases increased to 31,506 from a previous 27,980 – the largest number outside China.
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