COVID-19: Italy reports 300 plus deaths for third day running
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Rome: Italy, Europe’s worst coronavirus-hit country and the world’s second after China, on Tuesday reported a further 345 deaths in the past 24 hours.
This was the third day running that it reported over 300 deaths – after 368 on Sunday, and 349 on Monday.
While the country’s toll has gone upto 2,503, a point of optimism was that the infection rate had slowed down, according to the BBC.
The country now has 31,506 cases – with 2,060 people in intensive care, up from 27,980 earlier. However, this was the slowest rate of increase since the country identified the presence of the virus last month.
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