A moment of a funeral service without relatives in the cemetery of Zogno, near Bergamo, Northern Italy, Saturday, March 21, 2020. Italy’s tally of coronavirus cases and deaths keeps rising, with new day-to-day highs: 793 dead and 6,557 new cases. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)
March 21, 2020
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March 21, 2020 9:24 p.m.
As virus spreads, growing need for hospital beds, supplies
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.