ROME: Italy's world-topping coronavirus death toll shot past 10,000 on Saturday (Mar 28) and showed few sign of slowing down.
The 889 new fatalities reported by the civil protection service came a day after the nation of 60 million registered a world record 969 deaths on Friday.
Advertisement Advertisement Its toll from the past three days alone reached 2,520 - higher than the total number of deaths in either the United States or France.