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Italy records its deadliest day of coronavirus outbreak with 475 deaths

More than 250m people now in lockdown in EU as Germany and Belgium adopt measures

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Italy has suffered its deadliest day yet in the coronavirus outbreak and is poised to overtake China as the world’s worst affected country, as Europe tightened a lockdown affecting about 250 million people.

In all, 475 people died in Italy during the previous 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 2,978, with almost 36,000 cases reported by Wednesday evening.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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