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Patient No. 1 is out of ICU as virus pushes Italy to brink

by Associated Press
| March 10, 2020 12:05 AM

ROME (AP) — Italian doctors celebrated one small victory in their battle against the coronavirus after a 38-year-old man was moved out of intensive care for the first time since he tested positive Feb. 21 and opened Italy’s health care crisis as Patient No. 1.

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