President Sergio Mattarella on
Wednesday knighted a first group of citizens for their services
to the community during the coronavirus emergency.
They included Annalisa Malara and Laura Ricevuti, an
anaesthetist from Lodi and a hospital doctor in Codogno who were
the first to treat Italy's 'patient zero', and Maurizio Cecconi,
a professor of anaesthesiology and intensive care at Milan's
Humanitas University, who has been dubbed by the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA) as "one of the three global
heroes" on the pandemic.
All were named knight of merit of the Italian republic.
The persons were mostly frontline health workers but came
from all professions and all roles in the crisis.
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