Italy 427 deaths & 4480 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hrs

Vicenza, Italy – COVID-19 live updates
Date: Mar 19, 2020 – 06:37 p.m.

Italy passes China as deaths rise to 3,405

With 3,405 victims from the coronavirus, Italy has passed China, with a rise of 427 fatalities on Wednesday, Emergency Commissioner and Civil Protection Chief Angelo Borrelli said Thursday. China's death toll is 3,245. The daily rise on Wednesday in Italy was 475.

Borrelli said 33,190 people are currently infected with the coronavirus in Italy, 4,480 more than Wednesday. That compares to daily rise of 2,648 yesterday. He said 4,440 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Italy, 415 more than Wednesday. The daily figure on Wednesday was 1,084. The total number of infected, including those who have died and those who have since recovered, has risen to 41,035.

—Death toll among doctors in Italy rises to 13—

Two doctors died with the coronavirus in Como on Thursday, the federation of Italian doctors’ guilds FNOMCEO said.

They were pneumologist Giuseppe Lanati and family doctor Luigi Frusciante, the group said, both of whom had come out of retirement to work in the emergency. There have now been 13 deaths among Italian doctors, FNOMCEO said.

—Army takes Bergamo coffins out of Lombardy—

The Italian army has started taking coffins from Bergamo, the city worst-hit by the coronavirus outbreak, to crematoriums outside the Lombardy region after local services were unable to deal with the dead.

The first convoy of military vehicles on Wednesday night took an initial 60 coffins from Bergamo cemetery to other regions' crematoriums so funerals could be carried out. Coffins had been piling up, unburied, in the northern city's cemetery.

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