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Italy turns to hotels amid rising virus cases

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(13 Nov 2020) As Italy struggles to cope with a surge in COVID-19 cases, local health authorities have been resorting to hotels to accommodate patients in need of isolation in an effort to ease the burden on increasingly overwhelmed hospitals.
Empty due to the lack of tourism amid the pandemic, some hotels in Rome, just as and in other regions, have been turned into COVID-19 residences.  
They host patients going through the last phase of the disease and people who would not have an alternative to self-isolate and quarantine.
The four-star hotel Casa San Bernardo in southern Rome made its 70 rooms available to local health authorities.
Part of one of the hotels that international chain Marriott International owns in Rome, the Sheraton Parco de' Medici, near the capital's main international airport, has also been turned into a residence for COVID patients.
The structure is separated and far from other hotels owned by the chain which remain open for business as usual.
Regional health authorities announced the plan last October to make more rooms available in hospitals for critical cases as coronavirus began to spread once more in the country.
Patients are brought by ambulance to the hotels, or by their own means of transportation.
They usually quarantine for roughly two weeks, until their last swab test confirms they have become negative for the virus.
They are attended by doctors and nurses provided by the regional healthcare system, which is in charge of the facilities until the end of the pandemic emergency.

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