Doctors who are fighting coronavirus infection in Lombardy have identified new, rather dangerous features of COVID-19.
In the Italian city of Gromo, several cases were recorded when people infected with the coronavirus, but without any serious signs of illness, simply fell asleep and did not wake up. In one of the local boarding houses where volunteer doctors work, including those from Russia, at least five such patients have died in the last 24 hours.
A group of virologists and disinfectants from the Russian humanitarian mission arrived at the Gromo boarding house. All doctors are dressed in special biological protection suits with forced air supply and multilevel filters. After work - an obligatory disinfection shower from head to toe. Another group of Russians is fighting COVID-19 in several Lombard towns at once: Clusone, Cheney and Vertola.
Igor Bogomolov, the head of the Biological Defense Research Center of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters that it usually takes up to two hours to process the premises of the boarding house. In total, in Lombardy, the joint teams of Russian and Italian specialists have already fully processed 14 nursing homes for the elderly.