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Jo McKenna: Panic as Italy hits daily record of new Covid-19 cases

Published: Oct. 29, 2020, 2:09 a.m.

Italy reached a new daily record of nearly 25,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and added 205 deaths on Wednesday local time. 
Nearly 1,000 people were admitted to hospitals nationwide and 125 more in intensive care.
Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese briefed the Senate on protests following Italy’s latest anti-virus restrictions, which shuttered restaurants and bars at nightfall, closed movie theaters and in some regions imposed overnight curfews.
While daytime protests by restaurant owners and taxi drivers have been largely peaceful, Lamorgese accused a variety of fringe anti-government and virus-negating groups of using the crisis as an excuse for violence, vandalism and looting.
Italy has nearly 590,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 38,000 deaths, the second highest in Europe after Britain.
Italy correspondent Jo McKenna talks with Mike Hosking about the latest figures above.
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