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COVID-19 in pregnancy: Italian experience

Author(s) -

N. Volpe,

G. Schera,

T. Frusca

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

perinatal journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1305-3124

DOI - 10.2399/prn.20.0283001

Subject(s) - overcrowding , medicine , covid-19 , outbreak , quarantine , pneumonia , pandemic , china , intensive care , demography , pediatrics , virology , intensive care medicine , geography , economic growth , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , archaeology , pathology , sociology , economics

It has been happened a significant increase of critically severe pneumonia cases in northern Italy by the end of February 2020 with consequent overcrowding of intensive care units (ICU). Due to the COVID-19 fast outbreak, a strict quarantine was imposed in the areas with the higher number of affected cases. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, with over 50 countries on the 10th of March. By the 10th of March Italy was the second most affected country after China, with more than nine thousand confirmed cases and more than 460 deaths, becoming the most affected in April.

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