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

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>> francesca mangiatordi (speaking italian):

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

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

(hangs up phe) >> woman: >> mangiatordi: >> cristel: ♪

♪ (voice on scanner giving instructions) i (scanner voitructing) ♪ (nurse speaking italian) >> cristel: >> nurse: >> mm. >> nurse: >> cristel:

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

♪ (clicks tongue) ♪ >> mangiatordi (murmuring): mu (mng)

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

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

>> let's bring you some breaking news from italy. coronavirus deaths have risen by 683 in 24 hours, lifting the total death toll to 7,503. >> we're now into day nine of the lockdown.e thorities believe that the nexteek or so is very crucial. has not been reached yet.till >> today, italy has passed a dead from the viru ine people china. >> buona sera. (water running) >> mangiatordi:

>> kids: >>angiatordi: >> kids: >> maria teresa: >> oh, virus! >> michele and mangiatordi:: >> mangiator

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

>> mangiatordi:) ♪ (devices beeping and hsing) an >>atordi: >> cannavo: >> mangiatordi:

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

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

>> mangiatdi: >> mother: >> mangiatordi: >> mother: >> mangiatordi: okay, ao, ciao, mama, ciao. >> ciao. (phone chirps off) >>angiatordi (chuckling): >> there are now more than 525,000 cases globally. the pandemic has killed more than 23,000. i can't quite believe we're seeing these numbe, 919 peopleave lost their lives in the last 24 hours in italy. that is by far the bigge

loss of life in a 24-hour period not just in italy, but globally. it's impossible to i 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: >> mangiatordi:

>> woman: >> mangiatordi: (machis hissing) >> aldo:

>> si, si... >> aldo: >> mangiatordi: >> laura bocchi: >> mangiatordi:

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

d>> 61 doctors have now d from covid-19, along within 11,500 citizenust five-and-a-half weeks. the head of italy's emergency response says the virus may now e'be at its peak, but therno respite yet for the country's healthcare. and the head of the u.n. says the pandemic is the worstgl obal crisis since world war ii. >> we are slowly moving in the tght direction, but we ne 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.

thiss not a financial crisis this is a human crisis. (birds chirping) (picking out notes) >> mmm. mmm. >> aldo (on phone): mangiatordi: >> aldand mangiatordi: >> mangiatordi: (bleep) >> aldo:

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

allora... no >> dam >> maria teresa:

>> damiano: >> maria teresa: (crying):

(woman singing in distance) (singing) es (woman contiinging)

>> cristina pilati: >> woman: >> pilati (sighs): (machine beeps) >> mangiatordi:

♪ >> bocchi: (door creaks)

(door creaks) an e creaks, door latches) >> boy: >> bocchi:: >> b >> bocchi: >> boy: >> bocchi and boy:>> occhi: >> boy: bocchi: >> bocchi and boy:

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

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

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

>> mangiatordi: (bocchi sighs) >> mangiatordi: >> bocchi: >> mangiatordi:le (chu (phone chirps off) ♪ (birds chirping) (machine beeps) >> mangiatordi:

>> nurse: okay, bravissimo. >> woman: >> pilati: ♪

>> man: >> mattia's mother (on phone): >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia: >> mother: >> mattia:>> other: (mattia responds) >> mother: (nurses laughing) >> man: >> mother: >> man:

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

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

past 24 hours. terrible figures, yet better than the previous 24-hour period, and, according to the authorits, offering a glimmer of hope for the future. >> it's the west death toll in a week. it does confirm the general declining trend. two weeks ago, t rates of new 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 sighs) (exclaiming)di: (all talkingn background) >> mangiatordi: ♪

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

>> after more than a month of strict lockdown measures, s the country wly reopening. >> italy will allow a limited number of shops to open tuesday. the world health organn says there is still a risk. >> 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 tuesday for countries considering easing lockdowns, saying the virus spreads too quickly and haso proven t 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: ♪ (m hines hissing) >> woman: >> mattia:

>> woman: >> mattia: >> mangiatordi: >> woman >> nurse:

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

(clears throat) >> mattia: >> si. >> mattia:

♪ >> prime minister giuseppe conte announced his long awaited timetable for getting the country back to normal after seven eks in lockdown. from may the 4th, public parksll and gardens eopen and people will be able to visit relatives who live in the sameon re phase two, he says, is called "living with the virus," keeping track of fresh cases to prevent the pandemic raising its head once again.he thenhird phase will be an eventual return to normal social and work life.

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

♪

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