Growing Coronavirus Epidemic Is Straining Europe’s Health-Care System
Doctors say the continent is ill prepared to face a worsening coronavirus outbreak, with shortages of equipment including protective gear and hospital beds.
Doctors in European countries where the coronavirus has just begun to spread are warning that their health-care systems aren’t prepared for an outbreak on the scale seen in China, South Korea or Italy.
The Italian government on Sunday started to enforce a lockdown of some northern regions including the cities of Milan and Venice in a bid to curb contagion. Epidemiologists expect countries around Italy, the center of the outbreak in Europe, to reach similar levels of infections—in the thousands rather than the hundreds…
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