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Dying alone, Italy's virus victims leave double family toll

by Associated Press
| April 5, 2020 9:30 PM

ROME (AP) — The last time Roberto Giacomoni saw his 80-year-old father Enrico, he gently helped him up from bed, put his socks, shoes and jacket on, and walked him out to the paramedics who had come to take him to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing.

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