>> narrator: at the height of the pandemic in italy... >> italy has reported the highest one-day death toll from coronavirus. >> narrator: inside one hospital, with the dtors and nurses... >> woman: >> narrator: risking their own lives... >> no, no, no, no... >> narrator: to save others. >> (clapping, speaking italian) >> narrator: now, "inside italy's covid war". >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.

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>> francesca mangiatordi (speaking italian):

(sighs) (exhales) (machine hissing) (medical workers speaking italian)

>> mangiatordi: (hangs up phone) >> (bleep) (sighs) (machine hissing) >> aldo: >> mangiatordi:

(hangs up phone) >>oman: >> mangiatordi: >> cristel:

♪ (voice on scanner giving structions) (scanner voice instructing) ♪ (nurse speing italian) >> cristel: >> nurse: >> mm. >> nurse:st >> c:

>> nse: >> chiara (on phone): >> cristel: (clears throat) >> nurse and cristel: >> cristel: (coughing)

♪ (clicks tongue) ♪ >> mangiatordi (murmuring): (murmung)

♪ st >> criel: >> mm-hmm. (murmuring) >> woman:: >> crist (woman responds) >> cristel: (crying):

(machine hissing) >> mangiatordi: (machine hissing) ♪

>> let's bring you some breaking news fromtaly. coronavirus deaths have risen by 683 in 24 hours, lifting the total death toll to 7,503. >> we're now into day ne of the ckdown. the authorities believe that the next week or so is very crucial. the peak infection ratstill has not been reached yet. >> today, italy has passed a deadly milestone: more peoplead rom the virus than in china. >> buona sera. (wat running) >> mangiatordi:

>> kids:at >> mangidi: >> kids: >> maria teresa: >> oh, virus ic >>le and mangiatordi: >> mangiatordi:

>> mangiatordi and michele: >> michele: >> mangiatordi:

(all exclaiming) m >>giatordi: ♪ (deves beeping and hissing) >> mangiatordi: >> cannavo:

>> mangiatordi: >> cannavo: >> mangiatordi: >> cannavo: >> mangiatordi:

>> mangiator's mother: >> mangiatordi: >> mangiatordi's mother: (mother speaking softly) >> mangiatordi: >> mother: >> mangiatordi mother: ♪ ♪ >> mangiatordi: (mother laughs on phone) mangiatordi and mother:

>> mangiatordi: >> mother: >> mangiatordi: >> mother: >> mangiatordi: okay, ciao, ciao, mama, ciao. >> ciao. (phone chirps off) >>angiatordi (chuckling): >> there are n more than 525,000 cases globally. the pandemic has killed more an 23,000. i can't quite believe 919 people have loir lives, in the last 24 hours in italy.

that iby far the biggest loss of life in a 24-hour period nojustn italy, but globally. it's impossible to imagine what that feels like for the people working on the frontline, the doctors and nurses. we know now that 14 percent of the positive cases are frontline healthcare workers, as they are well into their third week in lockdown with no end date in sight. >> mangiatordi: >> woman: >> mangiatordi: >> woman: >> mangiator:

>> woman:>> mangiatordi: g) (machines hissin

>> aldo: >> si, si... >> aldo: >> mangiordi: >> laura bocch >> mangiatordi:

>> bocchi: >> mangiatordi: (laughing) >> bocchi: >> mangiatordi: ♪ >> bocchi: ct

>> 61 s have now died from covid-19, along with ,500 citizens in just five-and-a-half weeks. the head of italy's emergency response says thvirus may nowpe be at its ak, but there's no respite yet for the country's healthcare. and the head of the u.n. says the pandemic is the worst global crisis since world war ii. >> we are slowly moving in thect right din, but we need to speed up and we need to do much more if we want to defeat the virus and if we want to support the people in this.

this is not a financial crisis. this is a human crisis. ds (bhirping) (picking out notes) >> mmm. mmm. >> aldo (on phone): >> mangiatordi: >> aldo and mangiatordi: >> mangiatordi: (bleep) >> aldo:

>> mangiatordi: >>ldo: (bleep) >> mangiatordi: ciao, ciao. >> michele: >> mangiatordi (laughs): (chuckles)

allora... >> damiano: >> maria teresa:

>> damiano: >> maria teresa:

(crying): (woman singing in distance (singing)

(woman continues singing) >> cristina pilati: >> woman: pilati (sighs): (machineeeps) >> mangiatordi:

♪ >> bocchi: (door creaks)

(door creaks) (handle creaks, door latches) >> boy: >> bocchi: >> boy: >> bocchi: >> boy: >> bocchi and boy: >> bocchi: >> boy: bocchi: >> bocchi and boy:

>> bocchi: >> man: >> bocchi: >> boy: >> man: >> boy >> bocchi (on phone): >> boy: >> bocchi and boy:

>> man: >> bocchi: >> man: >> boy: >> man and boy: >> bocchi (on phone): >> man and boy: ♪

(boy giggles) ♪ (phone ringing): >> mangiator >> bocchi: (bleep) >> mangiatordi: >> mangiatordi: >> bocchi (tearfully): (bleep) (bleep) >> mangiatordi: >> bocchi:

>> mangiatordi: (bocchi sighs) >> mangiatordi: >> bocchi: >> mangiatordi: (chuckles) (phone chirps off) ♪ (birds chirping) (machine beeps) >> mangiator:

>> nurse: av okay, simo. >> woman: >> pilati: ♪

>> man: hone):tia's mother (on >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: (mattia responds) mother: (nurses laughing) >> man: >> mother: >> man:

>> mother: >> man: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> man: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother:a: >> mat >> woman: (both blow kisses) >> mattia and mother: >> mother:

>> mattia: >> mother: ♪ >> woman: >> monica: >> paolo: >> monica: >> paolo: >> monica: >> pilati: >> mattia: ♪ >> the city of cremona at the art of the country's coronavirus crisis: another 651 deaths nationwide over the

past 24 hours. terrible figures, yet better than the previous 24-hour a period, anording to the authorities, offering a glimmer of hope for the future. >> it's the lowest doll in a week. it does confirm the geral declining trend. f two weeks ago, the ratesw infection were some three or four times the figure that it is right now. >> manatordi (in french): (in italian): (man humming) >> mangiatordi: (hangs up phone) >> man and mangiatordi (bleep) (all laughing) >> mangiatordi:

(laughing) >> mangiatordi: (man sig): >> mangiator (exclaiming) (all talking in backgr) >> mangiatordi: ♪

>> woman: >> mangiatordi: (machines hissing) >> man: >> mangiatordi: ♪

>> after more than a month of strict lockdown measure the country is slowly reopening. o italy will allow a limited number of shops n tuesday. the world health organization says there is still a ri. >> now is the time for vigilance, now is the time to double down, now is the time to be very, very careful. >> the w.h.o. will release guidelines tsday for countries considering easing lockdowns, sing the virus spreads too quickly and has proven to be deadly not to have some protections in place. >> mangiatordi: >> maria teresa: >> mangiatordi:

>> michele: >> mangiatordi: >> damiano and michele: (damiano exhales) >> damiano: >> maria teresa: >> mangiatordi:

>> michele: >> mangiatordi: >> damiano: >> mangiatordi: (bleep) >> michele: >> mangiatordi: ♪ (machines hissing) >> woman: >> mattia:

>> woman: >> mattia: >> mangiator: >> woman: >> nurse:

>> mattia: >> mangiatordi: >> mattia: >> enzo:

(clearthroat) >> mattia: >> si. >> mattia:

♪ >> prime minister giuseppe conte announced his long- awaited timetable for getting the country back to normal after seven weeks inown. from may the 4th, public parks and gardens will reopen and people will be able to visit relatives who live in the me region. phase two, he says, is called "living with the virus," keeping track of fresh cases to prevent the pandemic rsing its head once again. then the third phase will be an eventual return to normal social and work life.

>>gasping happily) >> elena: >> mangiatordi: >> woman: (woman crying) >> mangiatordi: ♪

♪

>> go to pbs.org/frontline director sasha achilli about making this film. >> the stories i've done haveee alwayselsewhere, i've never actually made a story about my country.ea >> and more about treating patients in the cremona hospital. then listen to our podst, "the frontline dispatch". >> "covering coronavirus" is a special series of conversatis with our journalists in the field. >> connect to the frontline community on febook and twitter, and watch anytime on he pbs video app, or pbs.org/frontline. >> it will not be long before there will be no first-hand survivors alive. during the holocaust... >> i saw the wd auhwitz...

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