(9 Mar 2021) A hospital in a northern Italian province which which was once the epicentre of the country's COVID-19 outbreak remains under pressure as a British variant of the infection sweeps the region.
Across the Brescia area in Lombardy, intensive care wards are again filling up with more than two-thirds of new positive tests being linked to the variant of the more contagious virus, health officials said last week.
At the small M.Mellini Hopsital in Chiari, which is located about an hour east of Milan, the majority of its 160 beds are accommodating COVID-19 patients.
The hospital's head doctor is Gabriele Zanolini and he said that he believed around 60-70% of people admitted to his hospital were suffering from the UK variant of the virus.
He explained that there are an increasing number of patients who are not elderly, in comparison to when Italy dealt with the first wave of COVID-19 infections in the Spring of 2020.
The so-called UK variant is spreading significantly in 27 European countries monitored by the WHO and is dominant in at least 10 by the agency's count: Britain, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Spain and Portugal.
It is up to 50% more transmissible than the virus that surged last spring and again in the fall, making it more adept at thwarting measures that were previously effective, WHO experts warned.
After putting two provinces and some 50 towns on a modified lockdown, Lombardy's regional governor announced tightened restrictions on Friday and closed classrooms for all age groups.
Italy reached another dramatic record on Monday with 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the second highest in Europe after Britain.
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Across the Brescia area in Lombardy, intensive care wards are again filling up with more than two-thirds of new positive tests being linked to the variant of the more contagious virus, health officials said last week.
At the small M.Mellini Hopsital in Chiari, which is located about an hour east of Milan, the majority of its 160 beds are accommodating COVID-19 patients.
The hospital's head doctor is Gabriele Zanolini and he said that he believed around 60-70% of people admitted to his hospital were suffering from the UK variant of the virus.
He explained that there are an increasing number of patients who are not elderly, in comparison to when Italy dealt with the first wave of COVID-19 infections in the Spring of 2020.
The so-called UK variant is spreading significantly in 27 European countries monitored by the WHO and is dominant in at least 10 by the agency's count: Britain, Denmark, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Israel, Spain and Portugal.
It is up to 50% more transmissible than the virus that surged last spring and again in the fall, making it more adept at thwarting measures that were previously effective, WHO experts warned.
After putting two provinces and some 50 towns on a modified lockdown, Lombardy's regional governor announced tightened restrictions on Friday and closed classrooms for all age groups.
Italy reached another dramatic record on Monday with 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the second highest in Europe after Britain.
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