Steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave back in spring. Italy recorded 623. 00 coronavirus fatalities on tuesday, and more than 50000 people have now died from covert 19 across the u. K. Thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed of the past 24 hours. The countrys highest daily death toll since they were very much hoping that 2 things will start to come to our aid. Number one, the mass testing the kind i just described, the rapid turnaround testing. And then the other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine. So you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves to the disease in that, in the weeks and months that followed. But ive got to stress that were not out of the woods yet. Well, corona virus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u. S. As infections shatter, more records there. According to the covert tracking project, more than 130000, new cases were confirmed on tuesday, texas has become the 1st state to record more th
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