Reuters ALESSANDRO GAROFALO
Today, Sunday, the Italian Ministry of Health announced that it had recorded 298 new deaths from Corona virus infection, compared to 261 cases in the data yesterday, Saturday.
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The Italian Ministry of Health stated, in a new statistic, that the number of registered infections with the emerging corona virus “COVID-19” in Italy during the past 24 hours increased by 8913, compared to 10407 in the data yesterday, Saturday, bringing the general number to the level of 2047696 cases.
The ministry also added that it had detected 298 new deaths due to the disease, compared to 261 the previous day, bringing the number of pandemic victims in the country to 71,925 dead.
She explained that the number of people recovering from the disease currently stands at 1394011, after 7,798 cases of recovery were monitored, while 581760 are still receiving treatment.
Italy has become the eighth country in the world whose death toll from Corona has officially exceeded two million registered cases, while the country monitored the highest death toll in Europe and the fifth largest in the world.
On December 24, a general quarantine came into effect in Italy, declared on the occasion of New Year and Christmas, and imposed broad restrictions on the movement of residents.
Source: RT
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