Lorenzo Della Toffola’s hands haven’t been dirty for two months because the gondolas of Venice have been stationary, frozen where they were, with no one lining up to get on board.
When the nursing home in Nembro had a spike of anomalous deaths in January – a local priest knew something was wrong. Then, funerals began to swell and everyone started talking about a ‘severe pneumonia’ going around.
Italian specialist tells of intense fight against Covid-19 in the first hospital fully converted to deal with the disease