Another two Italian doctors died in the coronavirus crisis on Monday bringing the death toll among the frontline medics to 19.
They were Leonardo Marchi, infectivologist and health director of the Casa di Cura San Camillo care home at Cremona; and Manfredo Squeri, head of the medicine department at the Piccole Figlie care home in Parma.
Some 4,824 health operators have now been infected, twice as many as China, the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said Monday.
Lombardy is the worst-hit Italian region and Emilia-Romagna is the second-worst hit. Italy has had more deaths than China.
It is urgent to carry out "blanket" swabs on all health workers on the front line against the coronavirus, the president of the Italian federation of doctors' guilds FNOMCEO, Filippo Agnelli, told ANSA Monday.
The instruction from the technical committee to "extend the use of the swabs to all health staff" has not been respected by the "vast majority of regions", he said.
"Doctors are continuing to die and this situation is unacceptable".
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