Thus, the total number of deaths from coronavirus in the country increased to 17,920.

It was previously reported that in Italy, 525 people died in a day from the effects of COVID-19 infection.

On March 11, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic.

The senior researcher at the Russian Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, epidemiologist Oleg Yurin, in an interview with NSN, assessed the situation with the spread of coronavirus.