Italy: Footage from Rome's emergency COVID-19 hospital as cases top 100,000

M/S Sign Reading (Italian): "Casalpalocco Clinical Institute," Rome
C/U Sign indicating location of COVID ward
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M/S Triage tent outside hospital
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C/U Sign Reading (Italian): Protected area. Access allowed only to those with knowledge of the appropriate procedures
SOT, Antonino Marchese, Istituto Clinico Casalpalocco Medical Chief (Italian): "[Here we have] patients that were practically abandoned, who were able to say goodbye to their relatives when they left home and who may not even be able to see them again, so the nurses and doctors must, and this is a very important part, be able to lift the spirits of these people as much as possible."
M/S Man hospitalised in intensive care
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M/S Health professionals discussing
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M/S Man hospitalised in intensive care
SOT, Antonino Marchese, Istituto Clinico Casalpalocco Medical Chief (Italian): "The capacity of the facility is 101 beds, divided up between 30 intensive care beds, 18 sub-intensive care beds and the rest for patients with lighter symptoms. At the moment the facility has just over 50 per cent of capacity."
M/S Man hospitalised in intensive care
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M/S Health professionals working
M/S Health professionals working
M/S Intensive care monitor
M/S Man hospitalised in intensive care
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M/S Health professional tending to patient
C/U Health professional tending to patient
C/U Health professional tending to patient
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M/S Health professional
C/U Man hospitalised in intensive care
C/U Health professional tending to patient
SOT, Antonino Marchese, Istituto Clinico Casalpalocco Medical Chief (Italian): "Often those [health professionals] who live with wives and children don't go home, but for long periods of time stay at work and then retire to houses like the ones we rent for example, and therefore every time they have to hold back from the desire to continue life as it has always been until these heavy moments pass."
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M/S Janitor outside hospital
W/S Istituto Clinico Casalpalocco
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Doctors and nurses are working tirelessly to treat COVID-19 patients as seen in footage from one of Rome's specialized coronavirus wards on Monday, as the number of confirmed cases passes 100,000 in Italy.
Footage filmed inside the Covid 3 in Rome, the third coronavirus specialised hospital set up to deal with the emergency that has hit the country. Covid 3 is situated adjacent to the Lazzaro Spallanzani public hospital.
"The capacity of the facility is 101 beds, divided up between 30 intensive care beds, 18 sub-intensive care beds and the rest for patients with lighter symptoms," said medical chief Antonino Marchese.
With over 7,000 healthcare workers infected in Italy so far, many doctors and nurses are not allowed to go home to avoid spreading the disease to their family.
"Often those [health professionals] who live with wives and children don't go home, but for long periods of time stay at work and then retire to houses like the ones we rent," said Marchese.
Italy is the worst-hit country in Europe with over 100,000 confirmed cases as of Monday and 11,591 deaths thus far.