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 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.