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CountAllVotes

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Sun Mar 8, 2020, 05:02 PM Mar 2020

Coronavirus: As death toll rises by 133 to 366, Italy becomes most affected nation after China

Source: Associated Press

In Italy, the death toll jumped to 133 in 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 366 since the start of the epidemic, according to an official report released on Sunday.

Italy has now become the most affected country, after China.

Since the beginning of the outbreak in December, 109,032 cases of infection have been recorded in 99 countries and territories, causing the death of 3,792 people, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Sunday at 5:00 p.m. GMT.

4,129 new contaminations and 236 new deaths have been recorded since the count made the previous day at the same time.

Read more: https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/05/two-more-people-die-from-covid-19-in-france-says-the-country-s-health-ministry?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1583690583



Good luck!

We need it as this crap is spreading like wildfire throughout the entire world!!



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Coronavirus: As death toll rises by 133 to 366, Italy becomes most affected nation after China (Original Post) CountAllVotes Mar 2020 OP
Italy is only 3-4 weeks ahead of us.... getagrip_already Mar 2020 #1
Other countries will get as bad or worse too. totodeinhere Mar 2020 #2
Or Africa SpazzTheCat Mar 2020 #3

getagrip_already

(14,844 posts)
1. Italy is only 3-4 weeks ahead of us....
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 05:11 PM
Mar 2020

If you go back and look at cases reported, they were where we are 3-4 weeks ago.

Watch them for what we will become, except they are locking down entire regions. And we aren't even testing yet.

 

SpazzTheCat

(69 posts)
3. Or Africa
Sun Mar 8, 2020, 11:59 PM
Mar 2020

Regions with low healthcare infrastructure are going to be hit particularly hard. The rest of the world won't be able to come to save them, as every country is going to be fighting it on home soil.

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