The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surges past 100,000, and confirmed infections reach 1.7 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surged past 100,000, with confirmed infections reaching 1.7 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.Italy has recorded the most deaths at 18,849The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on January 9. It took 83 days for the first 50,000 deaths to be recorded and just eight more for the toll to climb to 100,000.
The Italian death toll spiked into the thousands last month, after the country's first known cases — two visitors from Wuhan — were detected in late January. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte extended a nationwide lockdown and suspension of all non-essential industrial production activities until May 3.
Within a week, a state of emergency was declared in the state, and a Navy hospital ship arrived to relieve pressure on the city's overwhelmed hospitals.
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