The death toll from the Covid-19 outbreak in the Italian region of Lombardy, has risen by 546 in one day to 3,095. It is the highest daily increase since the outbreak emerged.
Lombardy's head of welfare, Giulio Gallera, said the number of cases in the region, which includes Italy's financial capital Milan, had increased by 3,251 to 25,515.
On yesterday, Italy's death toll stood at 4,032, the highest in the world. The nation of 60 million now accounts for 36% of the world's coronavirus deaths and its death rate of 8.6% among those registered with infections is significantly higher than in most other countries.
Around 80% of cases of Covid-19 will be a mild to moderate illness, close to 14% have severe disease and around 6% are critical.