BREAKING: Coronavirus kills over 500 in Europe
A staff member of the health authorities of the southern federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg demonstrates on a negative sample the test for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in a laboratory in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on March 2, 2020. - The death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic surpassed 3,000 on Monday, March 2, 2020, as more people died in China, Iran and the US and Europe raised its state of alert.
The death toll in Europe from the coronavirus topped 500 on Monday, after Italy recorded a sharp rise in fatalities. Italy’s civil protection agency reported 97 new deaths, bringing the country’s toll to 463, as the country takes a series of stringent measures to battle the spread of the virus. The number of Europeans killed by the virus now stands at 511, including 21 in France, 16 in Spain, four in Britain, three in the Netherlands, two in Switzerland and two in Germany, according to an AFP toll.That total includes 724 people who have recovered.The worst-hit area remains the wealthy Lombardy in the north, the heart of a vast “lockdown” zone which stretches across swathes of the country to include several major cities, including Venice.
People were officially banned from entering or leaving unless they could prove they have a pressing and valid reason for travel, though travel in the regions affected largely continued.
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