hemal sampat talking about the coronavirus in boston and its impact.s said the country is "close to passing the peak of infections" as the number of coronavirus deaths fell for the second day in a row. but pedro sanchez also extended lockdown measures until april 25, saying the restrictions were "saving lives". the toll of 809 deaths in one day is the lowest in spain for a week. the number of new coronavirus cases in italy is stabilising — and fewer people are being admitted to intensive care. but authorities fear this could give people a false sense of security, with many now asking the government to relax the lockdown restrictions. italy's reported daily deaths have now fallen below the uk's. authorities say 681 people have died in the past 2a hours. jean mackenzie reports from rome. a slice of normal, a local market reopening for the first weekend since italy's lockdown began, albeit with some caveats. do you think this is safe? there are very few people, everything is under control, so, it's ok. what difference does it make, having the market open

hemal sampat is a doctor at massachusetts general hospital in boston.ed to deal with the crisis. he says numbers are on the rise. we are definitely in the middle of a surge right now. we saw our first case of covid—19 probably a couple of months ago but it has really picked up in the last month and especially over the last week. 0ur unit, the hospital medicine unit, we take care, we are very much the front line for the hospital in taking care of patients with covid—19 who are on the general medical floor who are not sick enough to be in the icu and our service has essentially completely been devoted now to taking care of patients with covid—19, we have multiple floor units that have been converted almost exclusively to take care of these patients. how worried are you about the capacity of your hospital to cope if the increase in levels of the virus cases continues to increase across the us? it is definitely a concern for the hospital. i will say our hospital leadership has been very much ahead of itself in preparing for any possibility, so we have conti