RomeItaly is confronting its gravest crisis since World War II. Hospitals are so overrun with patients suffering from Covid-19 that doctors have been forced to choose who will live and die. On Thursday the Italian army began transporting coffins out of Bergamo, the country’s hardest-hit city, because its morgues have been overwhelmed. Some 4,032 have died in Italy, more than in China, with 627 Italian deaths reported Friday—the highest daily toll for any country so far. Italy earlier this month pleaded with its European...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 20, 2020 22:52 UTC