Italy says it’s had 41 new COVID-19 deaths in just 24 hours. The country’s civil protection agency said on Thursday evening that 3,296 were now infected and 148 people had died, reported Euronews.
The northern regions of Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy — which surround Milan — remain the worst-hit with nearly three-quarters of all the country’s infections. It came as the UK and Switzerland announced their first deaths from the disease.
Earlier on Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people not to give up fighting the outbreak.
It has now killed 3,281 people globally and infected more than 95,000.