On December 13, Italy overtook England to become the country with the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in Europe.
As the first country in Europe to have an outbreak, Italy on December 13 recorded 484 new deaths, one of the lowest days in about a month. However, this number brought the total number of deaths in the country to 64,520 people, while that of the UK was 64,267.
One of the cited reasons for the high death toll in Italy is that it was the first country affected by the pandemic, which left health workers grappling with a widely unknown virus. Italy the number of deaths in Italy was in the first outbreak of the disease.
Also yesterday, Italy recorded more than 17,900 new cases, bringing the total number of cases to more than 1.8 million. As recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has tightened travel regulations during the Christmas and New Year holidays. From December 21 to January 6, 2021, people will not be able to travel between regions, except for work or for urgent reasons such as health./.