Corona in Italy: Doctors boss calls for "total lockdown" of the country and fears "ten thousand deaths"

The second corona wave also hits Italy hard.

The Conte government decides to stricter Covid-19 protective measures.

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• Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

  : The number of

  new corona infections

  continues to increase dramatically.

• The Italian government of

  Giuseppe Conte

  resolves tougher

  Covid-19

  * protective measures

  .

• Follow all developments regarding the

  second Corona wave

  *

  in

  Italy

  here in the

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  .

Munich / Rome -

was the ultimate memorial in the first big wave of the

.

The pictures from

with military convoys transporting corpses have burned themselves into the collective memory.

After the Mediterranean country had the infection rate largely under control in midsummer, the

also has

to fight

hard with the

in autumn

.

Coronavirus pandemic: Italy is struggling with the second corona wave

Since the beginning of November, a so-called gentle lockdown including night curfew has been in effect in the country with 60 million inhabitants.

Is that enough to press the numbers?

No, says a doctor chief and calls for far more drastic measures to contain the

.

"Over the past week we have recorded an average of a thousand hospital stays and over three hundred deaths a day,"

, president of the Federation of Medical Orders,

told

daily

.

Anelli said, “If the trend stays the same, we will have

and five thousand patients in the intensive care unit.

We need drastic measures immediately, such as a

”.

Corona pandemic in Italy: Doctors boss makes a drastic demand because of Covid-19

The doctor's boss was concerned and confirmed with a view to

: "Total lockdown now, or we will have 10,000 more deaths in a month."

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(pm)