Lombardy Governor Attilio
Fontana said Friday the coronavirus emergency intensified
sharply in Lodi near Milan on Thursday, with a sudden spike in
the number of people hospitalized.
Lodi and the surrounding province are at the centre of the
Italian coronavirus outbreak, which has seen 17 people with the
virus dead and some 650 people infected in Italy.
"Unfortunately another emergency broke out in Lodi
overnight," Fontana, who has put himself into self isolation
after a regional government employee tested positive, told La7
television.
"There was a rush of hospitalizations yesterday afternoon
with 51 people in a serious condition, including 17 who were put
in intensive care.
"Lodi doesn't have enough intensive care wards so they were
transferred to other intensive care units in the region".
Lodi is 30km southwest of Milan.
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