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COVID-19: After Reporting Highest Single-Day Death Tally, Italy Enters Fourth Week Of Lockdown
Due to the havoc of coronavirus, the number of positive cases in the world has crossed the half million mark while the number of deaths is more than 24,000. On the plus side, more than 120,000 people got a new lease on life after defeating this virus. Italy, though, has yet to see the sun: The country recently reported the highest single-day death tally after 969 people breathed their last. With that number, the country will soon enter its fourth week of isolation. These photos show the country is trying to hold on.
Due to the havoc of coronavirus, the number of positive cases in the world has crossed the half million mark while the number of deaths is more than 24,000. On the plus side, more than 120,000 people got a new lease on life after defeating this virus. Italy, though, has yet to see the sun: The country recently reported the highest single-day death tally after 969 people breathed their last. With that number, the country will soon enter its fourth week of isolation. These photos show the country is trying to hold on.
Military personnel disinfects a trolley outside as coffins are carried to be blessed inside the church San Giuseppe in Seriate, Italy.
A military truck carrying the coffins of people who died from the Covid-19?disease is seen outside the church of San Giuseppe in Seriate.
Coffins pile up inside a church due to the high number of deaths in Italy.
Doctors--part of the USCA special care unit of ATS Bergamo near Bergamo, Lombardy--talk to an 80-year-old woman who is most likely infected or showing symptoms of COVID-19 as they make a home visit.
Medical staff in protective suits treat a patient suffering from coronavirus disease in an intensive care unit at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, Italy.
People watch the extraordinary ''Urbi et Orbi'' (to the city and the world) blessing of Pope Francis at TV, in Cisternino, Italy. There are more than 80,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy. More than 900 died on Friday; 712 people died on Thursday; 683 on Wednesday; 743 on Tuesday and 602 on Monday.
A couple pray close to the Vatican as Pope Francis delivers an extraordinary 'Urbi et Orbi' (to the city and the world) blessing - normally given only at Christmas and Easter - from an empty St. Peter's Square in Rome, Italy.
A volunteer hands a mask to a man in the Tuscan town of Castiglione Della Pescaia, Italy.?
A member of the Military Emergencies Unit (UME) carries out a general disinfection at the Sant Antoni extended care facility in Barcelona.
A patient suffering from coronavirus disease sits inside an intensive care unit at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
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