From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.

I'm Martín Powers.

It's Wednesday, April 1st.

Today how Europe is tackling coronavirus, whether everyone should be covering their face

in public and the linen manufacturers making medical masks.

This is the front line in Italy's battle against the coronavirus.

I write here the heroin images from inside hospitals in Spain.

It's all hands on deck since the start of the outbreak in France.

They're evacuating fragile patients from the World Health Organization, says that Europe

may be approaching the peak of its coronavirus outbreak.

And in places that are hit the hardest, healthcare systems are at stretch capacity.

I am Chico Harlan, the Rome Bureau Chief for the Washington Post.

I've been covering the coronavirus outbreak in Italy since February.

Italy has one of the, at this point, one of the largest outbreaks in the world.

More people have died in Italy than in any other country, more than 12,000 so far.

And many days, even now, the country is reporting as many as 700 or 800 deaths in every 24

hour span.

Italy ordered its lockdown on March 10th and it was the first country in the West to do so.

But on the ground, it doesn't mean much yet, at least, because Italy's hospitals in the

north are still stressed to the max.

And doctors are still working without the protective equipment they need.

And then in like a province like Bergamo, where the virus is probably taking its most devastating

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