Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Italy police recycle oxygen canisters from virus victims

Police in the Italian city of Bergamo have brought much-needed help to people suffering from the coronavirus by redistributing oxygen cylinders used by people who did not survive the virus.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Italy's virus epicenter grapples with huge toll, some hidden

The priest gave a final benediction. There were no flowers, no embraces. Francesca Steffanoni and her mother hurried away from Bergamo's main cemetery, their furtive farewell lasting no more than 5 minutes.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Italy's coronavirus 'red zone' gets used to life under quarantine

At the edge of the northern Italian town of Casalpusterlungo, residents are slowly getting used to the isolation measures descending around towns like theirs, the centres of Italy's outbreak of the new coronavirus.