Italian army trucks are loaded with coffins to be transported to crematorium during the Coronavirus emergency in Ferrara, Italy, 25 March 2020. EFE/EPA/SERGIO PESCI
In February 2020, coffins had to be taken out of Lombardy, Italy on military trucks because the region was unable to deal with the sheer number of people dying from COVID-19. Medical staff described how Italy’s wealthiest region resembled a “world war” scenario amidst the pandemic: patients flocked to public hospitals, healthcare frontline workers were left unprotected in war-like triages, and funerals took place without the bereaved. A year later, Lombardy’s case fatality rate was the highest in Italy (5.7%), more than doubling the national fatality rate (2.4%) and that of the neighbouring Veneto region (3.0%).
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