Those who left the north may have taken the contagion with them, risking outbreaks in ill-equipped areas. FMTNews China
Paramedics stand by a tent set up outside the emergency ward of Cremona’s hospital, northern Italy.
Lombardy, the region around Milan that accounts for more than a fifth of Italy’s economic output, is by far the worst-affected part of the country. It had 5,469 cases, including 440 in intensive care, as of Monday afternoon. When new patients come in with pneumonia, a symptom of advanced coronavirus infections, doctors have little time to decide whether to assign them intensive-care beds, ventilation machines or respirators that could make the difference between life and death.
Physicians such as gastroenterologists, who normally focus on the digestive system, have been conscripted to help out with lung patients, and they’re still not enough, the doctor said. While checks appeared to be slowly getting stricter, initially enforcement seemed almost nonexistent, with airports open and thousands of people travelling from their workplaces in the north to their native towns in the south.
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