More than 1,000 people have died of the coronavirus in Italy and more than 15,000 have been infected, according to numbers released Thursday by the Civil Protection Agency.
Confirmed cases rose by 21 percent, from 12,462 infections Wednesday to 15,113 on Thursday, in the highest daily increase since the outbreak began there Feb. 21, the Reuters news agency reported. Italy also announced another 189 deaths, raising the death toll to 1,016 and marking a 26 percent increase since Wednesday, according to Reuters.
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