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2. Italy, Pandemic’s New Epicenter, Has Lessons for the World  The New York Times
3. Further 793 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours  Daily Mail
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2020-03-21 18:27:28Z
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Further 793 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours - Daily Mail

Almost 800 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours taking country's death toll to 4,825 - with 53,500 now diagnosed in crisis-hit country

• Italy's 4,825 fatalities account for 38.3 per cent of the world's total 12,700 deaths
• The number of coronavirus infections rose by 6,557 to 53,578, another record
• Fatalities in the northern Lombardy regions around Milan surpassed 3,000
• Coronavirus symptoms: what are they and should you see a doctor?

By Jemma Carr For Mailonline

Published: 17:16 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 18:09 GMT, 21 March 2020

Italy's death toll has skyrocketed by 793 to 4,825 in just 24 hours in the worst daily rise the country has seen yet.

Italy's fatalities account for 38.3 per cent of the world's total.

The number of coronavirus infections rose by 6,557 to 53,578, another record.

The total number of fatalities in the northern Lombardy regions around Milan surpassed 3,000.

Italy's death toll has skyrocketed by 793 to 4,825 in just 24 hours in the worst daily rise the country has seen yet

It accounts for nearly two-thirds of Italy's fatalities.

Italy has reported 1,420 deaths since Friday, a grim figure that suggests the pandemic is breaking through the government's various containment and social distancing measures.

The Mediterranean nation of 60 million has been under an effective lockdown since March 12, when public gatherings were banned and most stores shuttered.

An employee of the municipal company disinfects Piazza del Duomo in Florence, on March, 21 2020, as part of the measures taken by Italian government to fight against the spread of coronavirus 

Officials check drivers in Catania, Italy, in a bid to slow the spread of coronavirus in the country

Police were out in force across the streets of Rome on Saturday, checking documents and fining those outside without a valid reason, such as buying groceries.

Joggers were asked to run around the block of their houses, parks and beaches were closed, and the government in Rome prepared to extend school and other closures into the summer months.

But the outbreak keeps gathering pace in the new global epicentre of a virus that was first reported in December in China and has since transformed the world, straining health care systems, upending lives for millions and pummelling stock markets globally.

Italy's fatalities account for 38.3 per cent of the world's total. Pictured: Nurses in protective gear hug at the Cremona hospital, southeast of Milan, Lombardy

The figures released Saturday showed deaths still largely contained to Italy's richer north, whose world-class healthcare system is creaking but still not breaking.

But it is much better that what is available in the poorer south, whose regions have registered a few dozen deaths each - and which the government in Rome is watching closely.

The Lazio region that includes Rome has recorded a total of 50 deaths and 1,190 infections.

Italy has reported 1,420 deaths since Friday. Pictured: Nurses put on their work gear at the start of their shift on March 12, 2020 at the Cremona hospital, southeast of Milan

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2020-03-21 18:25:10Z
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Italy coronavirus deaths surge by 793 in a day, lifting total death toll to 4,825 - Reuters

ROME (Reuters) - The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in the northern region of Lombardy, which has borne the brunt of Italy’s contagion, has risen by 546 in a day to 3,095, officials said on Saturday.

It is the highest daily increase since the outbreak emerged.

Lombardy’s head of welfare, Giulio Gallera, said the number of cases in the region, which includes Italy’s financial capital Milan, had increased by 3,251 to 25,515.

On Friday, Italy’s death toll stood at 4,032, the highest in the world.

Reporting by Giselda Vagnoni; editing by Jason Neely

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2020-03-21 16:41:30Z
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Iran claims coronavirus restrictions will end in three weeks - New York Post

Iran predicted its coronavirus outbreak — one of the worst in the world — will end in a matter of weeks, allowing them to end social distancing and travel restrictions.

Iran was one of the countries hit hardest by the coronavirus outside of China, with more than 20,600 cases and 1,556 deaths.

Iran “has to do everything necessary to return economic production to normal,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday on state television, according to Reuters.

Rouhani claimed “counter-revolutionaries” had plotted to shut down economic production.

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2020-03-21 15:12:55Z
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North Korea test fires 2 ballistic missiles into Sea of Japan - New York Post

North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the ocean Saturday in an odd show of military strength during a crippling global health crisis.

The projectiles were fired around 6:45 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. from western North Korea, both flying roughly 255 miles cross-country before landing in waters off the eastern coast in the Sea of Japan, according to South Korean military officials.

Japan reported the projectiles didn’t reach Japanese territory, the Associated Press reported.

South Korea and the U.S. were analyzing the launches. It wasn’t immediately clear what weapons North Korea tested, but flight data suggested the North could have tested a mobile, solid-fuel missile system that it first demonstrated last year.

The testing is the third round of short-range launches and other military exercises this month. Kim Jong Un started the year promising to boost the country’s nuclear deterrent after talks with the U.S. collapsed.

“Such military action by North Korea is highly inappropriate at a time when COVID-19 is causing difficulties worldwide,” Seoul’s military said, calling for an “immediate stop,” according to Reuters.

Japan’s Defense Minister Taro Kono suggested Pyongyang’s demonstrations also could be aimed at “bracing the regime together” as COVID-19 spreads worldwide.

North Korea has yet to report a single case, despite sharing a border with China, where the outbreak began. A top U.S. military official said last week he is “fairly certain” there are infections in North Korea.

The nation started building a hospital this week and has quarantined at least 10,000 people.

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2020-03-21 13:10:35Z
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Iran's leader points to coronavirus as reason for US to lift sanctions - Fox News

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran, in an open letter, urged Americans to call on their government to end the “dark chapter” of sanctions against his country as it fights the growing coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Iran last week, blacklisting five international companies from doing business with the country, Reuters reported.

“Our policy of maximum pressure on the regime continues,” Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iranian affairs, told reporters, according to Reuters. “U.S. sanctions are not preventing aid from getting to Iran.”

But in his letter, Rouhani wrote, “Even under the circumstances of the pandemic, the U.S. government has failed to abandon its malicious policy of maximum pressure; and is thus in practice aiding the spread of this virus with its sanctions.”

A person dies of coronavirus every 10 minutes in Iran, health ministry says

He said the “war” on the virus can be won only if every nation pulls together.

Rouhani also wrote to a number of world leaders last week, asking them to ignore U.S. sanctions that have “hampered” Iran’s response to coronavirus, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who claimed the sanctions show “utter contempt for human life.”

Iran has been hit the hardest of any other Middle Eastern country by the virus, with one person dying every 10 minutes, according to the country's health ministry.

Over the past 24 hours, 123 people died, raising the country's death toll to 1,556, according to healthy ministry spokesperson Kianush Jahanpoor. It has had 20,610 cases.

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The U.S. sanctions are meant to pressure Iran into abandoning its nuclear ambitions after President Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Obama-era nuclear agreement in 2018.

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2020-03-21 09:55:15Z
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Coronavirus deaths soar in Italy as UK adds restrictions - Al Jazeera English

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1. Coronavirus deaths soar in Italy as UK adds restrictions  Al Jazeera English
2. Italy's coronavirus death toll rises by more than 600 in a single day  Fox News
3. Italy's hospitals overwhelmed by coronavirus as death toll soars  CBS This Morning
4. Coronavirus live updates: Worldwide death toll surges past 11,000  Al Jazeera English
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2020-03-21 08:12:32Z
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