Italy's coronavirus death toll soars past 10,000 making an extension of a national lockdown almost certain.Officials said 889 more people died in the previous 24 hours, the second highest daily tally since the pandemic emerged on February 21, and that total fatalities reached 10,023.Confirmed cases rose by about 6,000 to 92,472, the second-highest number of cases in the world behind the United States.Officials said the numbers would have been worse without a national lockdown.Civil Protection head Angelo Borelli said: "Without these measures, we would be seeing far worse numbers and our health service would be in a far more dramatic state."We would have been in an unsustainable situation."Italy, the first Western country to introduce severe
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