Coronavirus: The hospital at the heart of Italy’s pandemic - BBC Newsnight

Hospitals are quieter and shops and cafes are tentatively re-opening. Italy is trying to get back to some kind of normality. But what about the country’s front line healthcare workers who were the first to face the #Covid19 pandemic in Europe? Subscribe to our channel here: On 20 February a doctor at a hospital in northern Italy attended to a patient with severe respiratory failure. It turned out to be the first recorded case of Covid-19 in Europe. In the weeks that followed, parts of the Italian healthcare system would become overwhelmed, the country would go into lockdown, and the rest of Europe would follow suit.