BBC Documentaries
Inside the Red Zone: The Hospital at the Heart of Italy's Pandemic
2020 • E99 May 29, 2020 27m
The doctors and nurses at Lodi hospital in Lombardy were on the front line of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy. After discovering the first confirmed Covid-19 patient in Europe, they became the continent's first line of defence against the virus. Film-makers Alberto Gottardo and Francesca Sironi worked with the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse to make this exclusive film from inside the hospital at the heart of Italy's pandemic.