…As almost 900 more die in a day
Another 889 people have died in Italy after contracting coronavirus. The death toll in the country has risen to 10,023 over the last 24 hours – by far the highest worldwide and the latest in a series of increasingly tragic milestones, METRO reports.
Italy’s largest daily total was registered on Friday, when 919 people died. Prior to that, there were 712 deaths on Thursday, 683 on Wednesday, 743 on Tuesday and 602 on Monday.
There are now 92,472 confirmed cases, up from 86,498 on Friday. The country has the second highest number of cases, behind the United States. It surpassed China’s total on Friday.
Of those originally infected nationwide, 12,384 had fully recovered as of Saturday, compared to 10,950 the day before. There were 3,856 people in intensive care against a previous 3,732.