[국제]Italy shakes again…the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeds 3 million

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The situation in Italy, which was the epicenter of the spread of Corona 19 in Europe last spring, is not serious again.

With the rapid spread of mutations from the UK, the number of new confirmed cases continued to increase, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases exceeded 3 million.

Reporter Jo Soo-hyun reports.

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Italian health officials said the number of new confirmed cases was 24,36 a day on the 5th local time.

On a daily basis, it was the highest in three months since the end of November last year.

In addition, it has risen for five days in a row since the first of this month, and it has reached the 20,000 mark for three consecutive days since the last three days.

As a result, the number of cumulative confirmed cases in Italy exceeded 3 million, the eighth in the world.

It has been one year and one month since the first local infection was reported in February of last year.

In Italy, mutations from the UK are spreading rapidly in recent years, and the overall number of corona patients is on the rise.

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Some experts have analyzed that a tertiary epidemic has already begun in Italy.

The World Health Organization’s European office also warned of the spread of Corona 19 in Italy and other European countries.

It is an analysis that the number of new confirmed cases in Europe increased 9% last week to more than 1 million, declining for the sixth consecutive week and then turning to an increase.

In particular, more than half of the 53 countries that WHO classifies as a European region saw an increase in new cases last week.

As countries are in a hurry to vaccination, the vaccination rate and the spread of the mutant virus are expected to be important variables.

This is YTN Soo-Hyun Cho.

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