Bergamo

Daniele Macchini, a physician at Humanitas Gavazzeni hospital in Bergamo, wrote : “The war has literally exploded, and the battles are uninterrupted day and night. The results of the swabs now come one after the other: positive, positive, positive. Suddenly the emergency room is collapsing.”

A surgeon at Treviglio hospital in Bergamo told Corriere della Sera newspaper that she has shorn off her long blond hair for fear that some virus may be on it.

The mayor of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori, says his province, like many others in Italy, were not prepared for the coronavirus outbreak.

A case of pneumonia at a hospital in Bergamo province in late February was not recognized as coronavirus at the time.

Hospitals in the province of Bergamo have since been overwhelmed with patients.