![]() ![]() “The numbers in Lombardy and in the rest of the country show that the contagion is constantly expanding, with all consequences we know starting with the overload of work in hospitals, in particular in intensive care.” ![]() “A necessary step but, I fear, still insufficient,” Fontana said. ![]() Lombardy President Attilio Fontana said in a statement said the new lockdown measures may not be enough. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said. He described seeing “a tsunami of patients,” adding that there could be 18,000 patients in hospital by the end of the month if the virus continues to spread. “We’ve emptied entire hospital sections to make space for seriously sick people.” “We are now being forced to set up intensive care treatment in corridors,” Antonio Pesenti said. The coordinator for intensive care in the crisis unit for the northern Lombardy region told CNN that Lombardy’s health care system was “one step from collapse” despite efforts to free up hospital beds. The rest of the country will now join the northern provinces under lockdown – one of the toughest responses implemented outside of mainland China to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control. Over the weekend, blanket travel restrictions were announced in just certain areas. Your top 6 coronavirus questions from the weekend - answered (AP Photo/David Goldman) David Goldman/AP Staff at the 96-bed nursing home held an informational meeting for residents and have been stockpiling supplies, stepping up their daily disinfection routine and screening visitors for potential illness in recent days. In this March 6, 2020, photo, Jamie Carr, administrator in training, right, cleans the hands of residents before lunch at the South Shore Rehabilitation and Skilled Care Center, in Rockland, Mass. ![]()
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