A nurse allegedly strangled his doctor partner to death because he thought he had caught coronavirus from her. Antonio De Pace, 28, called the police and apparently admitted he murdered girlfriend Lorena Quartana.
The pair had both worked at a hospital in Messina, Sicily, and were helping fight the pandemic. Police found the 27-year-old newly qualified doctor dead at the apartment she shared with De Pace - who had hurt himself and was lying on the floor.
Paramedics and hospital staff were able to save his life before, according to the Sun, he allegedly confessed to local prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia: "I killed her because she gave me coronavirus." Early indications suggest, however, that neither of them had Covid-19, though tests are
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