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Coronavirus deaths in Italy pass 10,000 with 889 new fatalities – The Guardian, Theguardian.com

Coronavirus deaths in Italy pass 10,000 with 889 new fatalities – The Guardian, Theguardian.com
Red Cross staff at work in Turin, Italy. Some , people across the country are infected with Covid – 24. Photograph: Diego Puletto / Getty Images The number of deaths from the coronavirus in Italy has passed , 09 while the number of total cases is more than , . On Saturday, Italy announced (new deaths from Covid – , as total fatalities leapt to 14, 26. But this was a fall from Friday, when the country recorded its highest daily rise in Covid – deaths, with new fatalities . There are 5, (new cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, 700 fewer than Friday. Some , people across the country are infected with Covid – 24. While the total number of contagions in Italy, including the deceased and recovered, is 260, . On March, flags will be flown at half-mast in cities across Italy to commemorate the victims of the virus.

Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte warned on Saturday that the European Union could lose its purpose if it failed to deliver a strong response to the coronavirus threat and accused other member states of a reacting timidly to an unprecedented economic shock.

“If Europe does not rise to this unprecedented challenge, the whole European structure loses its raison d’être to the people, ”Conte told Saturday’s edition of the Il Sole Ore financial newspaper. “We are at a critical point in European history. I represent a country that is suffering a lot and I cannot afford to procrastinate. ”

The national government was said to be considering plans to extend a country-wide lockdown to mid-April. The Higher Health Institute (ISS said that the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy was approaching. “We have seen an apparent reduction in the infection curve since 25 March but we are not yet in a downward phase, ”ISS president Silvio Brusaferro told the Italian press agency ANSA. Read More

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