Italy Holds Highest Coronavirus Death Toll Now
ITALY – The coronavirus death toll in the country now is almost double of the total number of deaths in China due to COVID-19.
Two (2) of the countries that were severely hit by the 2019 novel coronavirus or COVID-19 are Italy and China. The latter is where the virus was first recorded.
In China, over 80,000 were infected by the novel coronavirus. It was first detected in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province. Several medical staff from other cities were sent to Wuhan to treat the patients.
Currently, Italy is under a total lockdown. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte initially put Lombardy, the epicenter of COVID-19 in the country, and 14 provinces in a partial lockdown but the cases continued to increase.
Conte decided to extend the lockdown to the whole nation. He also ordered non-essential businesses to stop their operation and for everyone to stay at their homes.
However, the cases of coronavirus continued to soar. For several days now, the country is recording hundreds of deaths daily due to COVID-19.
Based on a global tally of Worldometer, the coronavirus death toll in Italy now is almost double of the total number of the deaths in China due to COVID-19.
According to the tally, the Italian nation recorded a total of 6,077 deaths due to coronavirus. The death toll of China due to COVID-19 is 3,277.
Currently, the Italian authorities are still on the move to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country. Over 2,600 of its healthcare workers were infected by the disease.
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