Health
Italy’s Calabria has two pandemics: Covid and the mafia – BBC News
Calabria was not hit by the first wave of the pandemic but its fragile health system is buckling now.
By Mark LowenBBC News, Calabria, Italy
image captionItaly became the second European country after the UK this month to have 50,000 coronavirus deaths
“Until half an hour ago, 12 of our 18 Covid intensive care beds were occupied,” says Demetrio Labate, fastening his protective clothing. “But now we’re down to 11. We just lost another patient – he was 82.”
The ICU doctor gives us our fourth layer of surgical gloves, checks that our overalls leaves no part of our body exposed – and with that, we…
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