Italy recorded a new 24-hour death record on Saturday, with 793 dead, bringing the death toll to 4,825 people killed by the coronavirus pandemic in the peninsula in one month, according to civil defense figures.
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Italian authorities have announced 6,557 new positive cases, another worrying record. The Milan region, Lombardy (north), where health services are overwhelmed, recorded the vast majority of deaths (546) and half of the new cases.
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