New cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus are beginning to decline in Italy, two weeks after the country implemented a full lockdown. For the last three…
. On Thursday, the nation officially surpassed China for the most deaths related to COVID-19, and as of Tuesday, they have nearly double the death toll — 6,077 in Italy, and 3,277 in China. While the number of deaths in Italy are starting to decrease — there were 146 less between Sunday and Monday — the number of deaths is still staggering, with 649 on Monday.
With overwhelmed hospitals and ventilators in short supply, some doctors have been forced to decide which patients are more likely to survive, and should get the needed breathing help.One doctor in the city of Bergamo, in the Lombardy region, said that he thankfully has not yet had to choose.“No one wants to decide who lives or dies like God.”Italy implemented a full lockdown on March 9, stopping the country’s 16 million citizens from any travel through the country or from going outside.
Still, with the number of new cases decreasing two weeks after the lockdown began, it’s a hopeful sign that Italy is turning a corner. And the timeline — a decrease in cases about two weeks after a lockdown — follows in line with what happened in China after they started a lockdown in early February, as
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