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More people have died from the coronavirus in Italy and Iran, while the bug has now spread to several new counties across Europe, according to reports Thursday.
Two more people have died from the virus in Italy, bringing the country death toll to , while people there are now infected – up from a day earlier, authorities said Thursday.
The cases are heavily concentrated in Italy’s northern Lombardy and Veneto regions, where there are and 250 cases, respectively, the Local Italy reported .
Meanwhile, in Iran, the death toll has risen to – up from 27 on Wednesday, the Guardian reported . Nearly 662 people in the country have been diagnosed with the virus.
Several additional Europeans countries – Denmark, Estonia, Greece, North Macedonia, Norway and Romania – have reported their first coronavirus cases in the past day, the paper reported.
Eighteen cases of the infection and two deaths have been reported in France, where President Emmanuel Macron has warned that an “epidemic is on the way.”
Two additional cases have been reported in the UK, bringing the total number of infected residents to 27. Those individuals contracted the virus in Italy and Tenerife, according to the Guardian.
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