ROME (Reuters) -In late November doctor Maurizio Cappiello visited more than 130 patients in the emergency room of Cardarelli hospital, in the southern Italian city of Naples. More than two-thirds had COVID-19.
The virus which was limited mainly to Italy's industrial north during the first wave in the spring was now also ravaging the poor south, overwhelming its fragile public health system.
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