Italians are probably the most hard-hit country in the world right now. The North part of the “Bel Paese” recorded a horrible amount of victims especially in the Milan and Bergamo areas.

However, there is a small light at the end of the tunnel, Fortunately, there are reports that the curve related to the infections seems to flatten and there are very encouraging reports from Parma where according to a picture posted by the local outlet La Repubblica, the Emergency Covid room in Parma is completely empty.

Experts have been repeating that there is a phase change in the epidemic, albeit with the utmost caution, for a few days. A visual signal in this sense comes from the waiting room of the Emergency Room of the Maggiore hospital in Parma, transformed into a department for Covid patients due to the coronavirus emergency.

After a month of struggles, the waiting room spaces have emptied. Since Monday afternoon, in the former waiting room and in the clinics of the emergency unit, there are no more patients but empty stretchers.

The area has been totally sanitized. In the last fifteen days, the Covid area was full with over 50 stretchers occupied by people with respiratory problems. After endless and non-stop days, here is a significant sign of optimism that comes from the emergency room.

This is absolutely great.

Photocredit: Marco Vasini