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The European situation is not improving either. In Italy and Spain, the cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 120,000, and the number of deaths increased by more than 700 per day. The World Health Organization has requested countries to "actively respond with free testing and treatment."

This is reporter Kim Hye-young.

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Italy, the country with the largest number of corona19 patients, was 119,000 in the evening yesterday (3 days), and the cumulative number of deaths increased by 760 to 14,000.

In response, the Italian government decided to extend the containment measures by another 10 days.

In Spain, with the largest number of confirmed cases after Italy, the number of confirmed cases was 115,000 and the number of deaths was 1,900 respectively.

The World Health Organization, the World Health Organization, stressed that the situation with more than 1 million cumulative diagnoses worldwide is more than a health crisis.

[Governor Yeosu / WHO Secretary-General: All countries must remove financial barriers to treatment. If people delay or give up treatment because they can't afford it, they not only harm themselves, but also make the pandemic more difficult to control, putting society at risk.]

The WHO warned, however, that withdrawal of the restrictions promptly could lead to more serious economic damage from virus re-proliferation.