What can we learn from Italy’s coronavirus crisis? I Inside Story

Hospitals and morgues overwhelmed, bodies piling up in churches and just under 800 deaths in one single day. That’s the shocking reality in Italy which has become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic. And a symbol of the enormous challenges facing Europe’s public health systems. The Italian government is struggling to keep up with the spread of the virus. It has sent in the army to enforce the lockdown in Lombardy, the northern region at the centre of the outbreak And it’s tightening already strict co