Coronavirus: Number of COVID-19 deaths in Italy surpasses China as total reaches 3,405

Some 427 more people with COVID-19 have died in Italy, taking the total number of deaths to 3,405.
The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in China is 3,245, while Wuhan - the city where the first case emerged - reported no new infections on Thursday.
Italy's latest figure is a slight improvement on the day before, when there were 475 deaths.
China's population is more than twenty times larger than Italy's and its number of recorded cases is far higher - 80,907 compared with 41,035.
Italians queue to enter a supermarket in Rome
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However, experts believe the total number of infections in Italy is significantly higher because testing is largely limited to
those arriving for hospital care.
A nurse at a Milan hospital, Daniela Confalonieri, said: "Unfortunately we can't contain the situation in Lombardy.

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