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Roma players and staff donate salary to provide hospitals with ventilators to fight Covid-19

Roma players and staff have joined the fight to control the spread of Coronavirus in Italy by donating their salary to provide a hospital with ventilators and beds.
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They have agreed to sacrifice a day’s salary to provide a hospital in the capital with ventilators and beds to aid the fight against Coronavirus outbreak.

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The salary donations on top of individual contributions to the club's campaign amount to more than €200,000 (£185,000/$213,000).

Roma have raised around €460,000 (£424,000/$491,000) for the Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital in the last week, which has been one of the nation's most important centres in the effort to beat the Covid-19 spread.

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The Serie A has been suspended until April as the outbreak of Coronavirus becomes severe in Italy.

The death toll in Italy has exceeded 3,000 and it has surpassed China as the country with the highest fatality from the Coronavirus pandemic.

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