Perinatal Journal (Dec 2020)

COVID-19 in pregnancy: Italian experience

  • Volpe, Nicola,
  • Schera, Giovanni Battista Luca,
  • Frusca, Tiziana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2399/prn.20.0283001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 3
pp. 149 – 153

Abstract

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It has been happened a significant increase of critically severe pneumonia cases in northern Italy by the end of February 2020 with consequent overcrowding of intensive care units (ICU). Due to the COVID-19 fast outbreak, a strict quarantine was imposed in the areas with the higher number of affected cases. The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, with over 50 countries on the 10th of March. By the 10th of March Italy was the second most affected country after China, with more than nine thousand confirmed cases and more than 460 deaths, becoming the most affected in April.