The head of the medical association in the northern Italian province of Varese has died after being hospitalized for respiratory failure due to coronavirus, Italy’s state-run ANSA reported.
Roberto Stella, 67, had reportedly been working at an outpatient clinic in Busto Arsizio, northwest of Milan, when he and a colleague both became infected with the virus at the weekend. He died on the evening of March 10 at a hospital in Como, Lombardy, which has been at the center of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak. The health condition of Stella’s colleague is not currently known.
