Italian doctor dies of coronavirus after working without gloves due to shortage
A 57-year-old doctor who tested positive for coronavirus and who was working in a hospital in the town of Codogno has died, Euronews reports.
Marcello Natali had been hospitalised in Cremona before being transferred to Milan after developing double pneumonia.
In one of the last interviews he gave before he was tested for COVID-19, he told Euronews that he had had to work without gloves: "They have run out," he said.
Italy announced a record daily death toll of 475 on Wednesday, bringing the number of dead in the country to 2,978, with almost 36,000 confirmed cases.
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