COVID-19 Pandemic: A Day In The Life Of The Medical Staff Working In Italy's ICUs

A doctor gives a thumbs up to a patient as a colleague takes care of him at the COVID-19 division at the ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital in Bergamo, Italy.

Medical staff treats a patient in the ICU unit of the Covid 3 hospital in Casalpalocco, near Rome. Around 8,000 doctors and nurses have been infected and over 60 have died, in Italy.

A member of the medical staff wearing his protective suit to enter the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) unit at Ferrero to San Filippo Neri hospital in Rome.

Medical staff checks medical equipment during his visit to a patient in the ICU unit of Rome's San Filippo Neri Hospital's Covid department, in Rome. Italy has extended?lockdown till May 3, as COVID-19 deaths cross 19,000; with more than 150,000 cases.

Medical staff members are seen behind a desk, monitoring a patient in the intensive care unit, where patients suffering from COVID-19 are treated, at the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy.

A coronavirus patient under treatment in the intensive care unit interacts with a robot at 'Ospedale di Circolo' hospital, in Varese, Italy. For several weeks in the hospital of Circolo di Varese, robots worked with patients hospitalised in isolation by measuring their temperature, vital parameters and interacting with them in such a way as to cushion the negative effect of isolation.

Medical staff members treat a patient suffering from COVID-19, in the intensive care unit at the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy.

A medical staff member reacts in the intensive care unit, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are treated, at the Circolo hospital in Varese.

In the picture, two hands are seen - one, of a patient suffering from COVID-19 and other of a medical staff member, in the intensive care unit at the Circolo hospital in Varese.

Medical staff helps a patient wearing a Decathlon snorkeling face mask in the COVID ward of the Maria Pia Hospital in Turin.?