Italy reports 427 new coronavirus deaths, overtakes China's death toll

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FightCOVID19 Italy reports 427 new coronavirus deaths, overtakes China's death toll

Thursday's figure represented a slight improvement on the day before, when Italy recorded 475 deaths.

Some 3,245 people have died in China since the virus first emerged there late last year. Italy's outbreak came to light in the north of the country on Feb. 21. The total number of cases in Italy rose to 41,035 from a previous 35,713, up 14.9%, a faster rate of growth than seen over the last three days, the Civil Protection Agency said.

Of those originally infected, 4,440 had fully recovered compared to 4,025 the day before. There were 2,498 people in intensive care against a previous 2,257.

 

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If people with financial back up are dying what will happen to us poor South Africans with our country not focusing on the poor

Eish

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South Africa is still warming up, We're going to overtake the rest of the world like we did with TB and HIV, Our government is useless like that...

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