Italy will rush 10,000 student doctors into service, scrapping their final exams, in an effort to help the struggling health service cope with the #coronavirus outbreak reut.rs/39Zl2HU (1/4) 
More than 2,000 people have died of the disease in Italy, while the total number of confirmed cases surges to more than 27,000. The crisis has pushed hospitals to the breaking point in northern Italy and left other regions scrambling to strengthen their own health networks (2/4)
University Minister Gaetano Manfredi said the government would let this year’s crop of medicine graduates start work some eight or nine months ahead of schedule and waive the mandatory exams they normally sit before qualifying (3/4)
The graduates will be sent to work in general practitioners’ clinics and at old peoples’ homes, freeing up more experienced colleagues who will be sent to the rapidly filling hospitals. Read more: reut.rs/39Zl2HU (4/4)
