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.
However, experts believe the total number of infections in Italy is significantly higher because testing is largely limited to
those arriving for hospital care.
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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