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Sunday, March 8, 2020

Italy death toll shoots up by 133 in a day, has second-most virus deaths after China LIVEMINT . Updated: 08 Mar 2020, 11:48 PM IST

Passengers wearing masks alight from a train that has arrived from Milan, a town that is now under lockdown after the government decreed a massive no-go zone set up to contain an outbreak of coronavirus, in Catania, Sicily. (REUTERS)
ROME : The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 133 to 366, the Civil Protection Agency said on Sunday, by far the largest daily rise in fatalities since the outbreak came to light last month.
The total number of cases in Italy, the European country hardest hit by the virus in Europe, leapt 25% to 7,375 from 5,883 on Saturday, another record jump.
The head of the agency said that, of those originally infected, 622 had fully recovered, compared to 589 the day before. Some 650 people were in intensive care against a previous 567.
The number of infections rose by a single-day record of 1,492 to hit 7,375.
Italy has recorded the most deaths of any country outside China and the second-most COVID-19 infections in the world. The majority of the deaths were in the Lombardy region in northern Italy, the civil protection agency said.

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