Lessons from Italy on coronavirus: We must act now or face calamity

Italian military trucks drive through streets of Bergamo after the army were deployed to move coffins from the town, which is at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, to neighbouring provinces after funeral services were overwhelmed, on March 18. [Reuters]

No other country in the world has been hit as hard and as fast with the coronavirus like Italy.

In less than a month, Italy has seen itself move from recording only three cases to having the highest number of deaths in the world. While this has happened, life has drastically changed for the country.