Italy: 993 Covid-19 related deaths; Government to ban travel at Christmas

Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash Italy registered a record of 993 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours on Thursday. This is the highest daily toll since the outbreak, according to the Italian health ministry. Some 347 people died of coronavirus in Lombardy in the last 24 hours. There were 23,225 new coronavirus cases on Thursday,