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NewsColony DAN HODGES: We don’t have the worst Covid-19 death rate in Europe and it’s wicked to pretend we do Dr Chiara Lepora, of the disaster relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, sounded exhausted. ‘Everybody here is working beyond their limits,’ she admitted.  Lepora wasn’t speaking from the scene of a catastrophic famine, or an overwhelmed refugee centre. But from Lombardy, Italy . ‘We have a team of about 25 people working here in the Lombardy region,’ she explained. ‘The health system here is very advanced but the virus has outpaced all attempts to deal with the increasing number of cases. Workers for Medecins Sans Frontieres have been working beyond their limits to fight the coronavirus in the Italian region of Lombardy The region of Lombardy, which contains major Italian cities such as Milan (above) and Bergamo, has been one of the worst affected areas by the global pandemic ‘The hospitals are at their limit… the only way to refer a new patient in...