Massimo Galli, the head of the
infectious-diseases department at Milan's Sacco hospital, said
Thursday that his team is braced for "the battle of Milan" with
COVID-19 spreading fast in the city.
"I feared the battle of Milan in March but it was avoided thanks
to the relative speed of the lockdown," Galli told RAI
television.
"Now we are about to have it because infection is spreading
fast".
Milan is in Lombardy, the Italian region hit hardest by the
first wave of the coronavirus.
But the situation in the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia was
worse than in Milan.
"Now people in Milan are susceptible to getting infected," Galli
said.
"There is a real fear of a flood of infection and that is shown
by what we see in the hospitals".
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
