COVID-19 Crisis: Italian Nurses Work Round-The-Clock As Mankind Fights For Survival

A nurse rests during a night shift at a hospital in Cremona, Italy.

Medical personnel wearing protective face masks help patients inside the Spedali Civili hospital.

The global death toll due to the novel coronavirus has crossed 7,175 with more than 183,065 cases. The spike in infections in Italy and Spain led to the tally rising manifold.

Italy is the worst-hit country?outside of China - where the outbreak began in the industrial hub of Wuhan.

A quarter of the country's ICU beds are filled in by those who are infected with the virus.

Pagliarini, the nurse told the Corriere della Sera, an Italian newspaper, about how the exhaustion isn't just physical but also mental. She said, "I actually don't feel physically tired, I can work for 24 hours straight if it's necessary but I won't hide the fact that right now I'm anxious because I'm fighting an enemy that I don't know."

A giant image of a drawing by Venetian artist Franco Rivolli showing a doctor with wings on her back cradling Italy and writing in Italian reading 'To all of you... Thank you!'

Italy’s government has imposed measures to try to stop the spread of the virus with a national lockdown in place, restricting the movement and activities of the country’s 60 million inhabitants.??