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Italy orders 22 mln masks to combat coronavirus spread

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Italy is ordering 22 million surgical masks to help stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the civil protection agency said Sunday, as it announced the country's death toll jumped to 366.

Over 15 million people were meanwhile adjusting to life in lockdown after the government shut whole swathes of the north, beginning with the worst-hit Lombardy region, home to the majority of Sunday's 133 deaths.

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First Published: Mar 09 2020 | 12:58 AM IST

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