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Today, the Italian authorities announced the registration of nearly a thousand deaths, which is the worst daily toll in the country and the world.
Reuters news agency quoted the Italian Civil Defense as saying that 919 new deaths were recorded, bringing the total number of deaths in Italy to 9134 deaths, and the total number of confirmed cases of the virus rose to 86,498 cases, up from 80,539, thereby exceeding the number of infections in Italy than in China where it started The outbreak at the end of last year.
The northern region of Lombardy is the worst affected region with more than half of the country's deaths.
The previous highest toll in a single day was recorded on the 21st of this month, when 793 people died due to corona virus.