Italy's daily death toll from coronavirus on Wednesday was the lowest for six days, according to the country's officials. Authorities also reported that the overall number of new infections has grown however and the government has extended a national lockdown until at least the middle of April.The Civil Protection Agency said 727 people had died over the last 24 hours, down from 837 the day before, bringing total fatalities from the world's deadliest outbreak of the viral pandemic to 13,155.Italy accounts for around 30% of all global deaths from the highly infectious respiratory illness, and two new studies suggested its true death toll could be significantly higher.New cases rose by almost 4,800 on Wednesday, a sharper spike than in the
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