Unit in rome, struggling to keep pace with the crisis. Hospitals starting to burst in a deadly price. Footagenapels er, showing a person dead, this one, we dont know if he is alive or dead. Even icus struggle as the body count soars. Something that we witnessed up close in rome. Sos that patient who just passed away from covid19 . Just this moment . So just two or three minutes ago. This patient was alive and now he has passed away. Unfortunately it happens says the doctor. More and more often as infections are surging across italy. Once the worst hit country at the start of the global pandemic. Italy was the first country in the world to lockdown nationally so it would never have to happen again. But italians eventually dropped their guard says the doctor. Who is now running out of icu beds. Romes covid hospitals are saturated, he said, its exploding again. And this time, its spreading to the poorer south. With dangerously few hospital beds. A catastrophe deja vu in a country that ser
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