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Campari donates €1m to coronavirus ‘emergency’

Aperol producer Campari Group has donated €1 million (US$1.1m) to a public healthcare institution in Milan to fund the intensive care operational unit used to hospitalise patients who test positive for covid-19.

17/03/2020

According to The Spirits Business, The ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco in Milan, Italy, was described by Campari Group as a “center of national excellence” in the research and treatment of highly contagious and dangerous diseases.

The funds will also be used to equip the center with 10 resuscitation kits.

Italy is currently on a nationwide lockdown in a bid to mitigate the spread of covid-19 (coronavirus).

A statement from Campari Group said: “With [Milan’s] open and cosmopolitan spirit, you have inspired our concept of conviviality, socializing, getting together. You have inspired a ritual, the apéritif, which we have proudly taken around the world over the years, as a symbol of our hometown.

“Milano, you are a driver of economic and social development. Behind you is a long and unique history, while all along you have always been ahead of times on the cultural scene and always channeling the greatest energies of our country.

“Today, you are hit by an emergency that is taking its toll on all of Italy and the whole world. But you don’t give up.

“You are the symbol of a region and a country where passionate teams of doctors and health workers are working tirelessly with professionalism and extreme dedication to healing the deep wounds that the coronavirus emergency is inflicting to all of us.

“The current emergency compels us to stop all forms of social aggregation and conviviality. Waiting for the rebound together, longing to put all of this behind us, we want to show you our sympathy and gratitude by doing what we feel like a duty as Milanese and Italians.

Read More at source: The Spirits Business

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