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Roma players & staff donate salary to provide hospital with ventilators and beds in coronavirus fight

Roma will donate ventilators and beds to a hospital in Rome to aid the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after players and staff have agreed to give up a day's salary.

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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Roma will use some of the funds to buy three intensive care ventilators, five pulmonary ventilators for sub-intensive care and eight new intensive care beds for the hospital.