52 die of the Coronavirus in Italy

The Italian Civil Protection Chief and Coronavirus Emergency Commissioner Angelo Borrelli announced on Monday that 1,835 people have become ill with the virus in Italy, up by 258 with respect to Sunday.

He said this number does not include the 149 people who have recovered from the coronavirus, 66 more than the number reported on Sunday, and the 52 people who have died with it, up 18 on Sunday.

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said almost eight times as many cases had been reported outside China as inside in the previous 24 hours, adding that the risk of coronavirus spreading was now very high at a global level.

At a briefing in Geneva, he said outbreaks in South Korea, Italy, Iran and Japan were the greatest concern, but that there was evidence that close surveillance was working in South Korea, the worst affected country outside China, and the epidemic could be contained there.

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