Nurses and doctors gear up for intensive care unit at Rome COVID-19 Hospital
10 April 2020 |
11:52 am
At the COVID-19 Hospital Policlinico di Tor Vergata in Rome, nurses and doctors are at war against the novel coronavirus, gearing up before entering the intensive care unit.
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