Italy has just reported 5,372 new cases. I am more concerned about the number Hospitalised than new cases as many are asymptomatic and have been discovered because of the 129,471 swabs performed. At the moment the reports are of hospitals going into overload in Naples and Sicily, and to a lesser degree Rome.

Having said all that it is clear we are on the start of the so-called "second wave". There is also growing concern over the number of deaths not directly Covid related that are due to cancelled or unavailable care, missed chemotherapy, postponed operations, etc.

I feel sorry for people in the UK because you are now starting on the "second wave" without having really come out of the first.

Peter

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