16 Mar 2020

Inside one intensive care team fighting coronavirus in Cremona, Italy

International Editor

Italian hospitals are at their absolute limit, with hundreds more deaths reported daily, and huge challenges in caring for those infected.

Warning: some viewers may find distressing images in this report.

Italian hospitals are at their absolute limit, with hundreds more deaths reported daily, and huge challenges in caring for those infected.

This is the story of one small Intensive care team in one hospital at the heart of the country’s coronavirus outbreak in the town of Cremona, just south of Milan.