One hundred Italian specialists have kicked the bucket of the novel coronavirus since the pandemic arrived at the Mediterranean nation in February, Italy's FNOMCeO wellbeing affiliation said on Thursday.

"The quantity of specialists who have kicked the bucket due to COVID-19 is 100, maybe even 101 right now, shockingly," an FNOMCeO representative told AFP.

The passings incorporate resigned specialists the legislature started bringing in a month before help battle coronavirus that has authoritatively asserted a world-fixing 17,669 lives in Italy.

Italian media reports a gauge of 30 medical caretakers and nursing helps have likewise kicked the bucket of COVID-19.

"We would longer be able to permit our primary care physicians, our health laborers, to be sent to battle with no security against the infection," FNOMCeO president Filippo Anelli said on the affiliation's website."It is an out of line battle."