Italy could ‘section’ people who refuse treatment for Covid-19
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome from on (#55F53)
Minister proposes mandatory hospital care as country grapples with fresh outbreaks
Italy's health minister has proposed sectioning" people who refuse hospital treatment for Covid-19 and has suspended flights from Bangladesh as the southern European country grapples with several new coronavirus outbreaks.
The potential move towards forced hospitalisations came after a cluster of infections arose in the northern Veneto region, triggered by a man who developed coronavirus symptoms on the day he returned from a business trip to Serbia and initially resisted treatment in hospital.
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