Posted on Mar 21, 2021
Newshour - Italy struggles to contain rapid rise in Covid infections - BBC Sounds
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Shops, restaurants and schools will be closed across most of Italy on Monday, with PM Mario Draghi warning of a "new wave" of the coronavirus outbreak.
For three days over Easter, 3-5 April, there will be a total shutdown.
Italy, which one year ago imposed one of the first national lockdowns, is once again struggling to contain the rapid spread of infections.
The country has reported more than 100,000 Covid-related deaths, Europe's second-highest tally after the UK.
Italy's vaccination campaign has been hit by delays, as has been seen elsewhere in the European Union.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet has been speaking to Professor Giacomo Grasselli, head of the ICU at Policlinico Hospital in Milan who is coordinating the regional response in Lombardy, the area which saw Italy's first and worst outbreak last year.
For three days over Easter, 3-5 April, there will be a total shutdown.
Italy, which one year ago imposed one of the first national lockdowns, is once again struggling to contain the rapid spread of infections.
The country has reported more than 100,000 Covid-related deaths, Europe's second-highest tally after the UK.
Italy's vaccination campaign has been hit by delays, as has been seen elsewhere in the European Union.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet has been speaking to Professor Giacomo Grasselli, head of the ICU at Policlinico Hospital in Milan who is coordinating the regional response in Lombardy, the area which saw Italy's first and worst outbreak last year.
Newshour - Italy struggles to contain rapid rise in Covid infections - BBC Sounds
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These variants are going to cause problems. The P1 variant out of Brazil is a bad one too. People previously infected with COVID are being reinfected at a rate of up to 60% with this variant. One early monoclonal treatment for COVID no longer works on one of the variants out of Europe. We are far from being out of the woods with this pandemic yet. So don't let your guard down and keep up your emergency supplies. I fully expect a more dangerous one to emerge that the vaccines will not be able to defeat.
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