Italy’s CCP Virus Death Toll Passes 10,000

Italy’s CCP Virus Death Toll Passes 10,000
Carabinieri officers, wearing protective suits, pull a coffin in Ponte San Pietro, near Bergamo, Northern Italy, on March 28, 2020. Italy's death toll is now the highest in the world at at over 9,000.Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images
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When Milan resident Antonia Mortensen was pulled over by police while driving recently, it wasn’t for a traffic offense. It was to instruct her fellow passenger to sit in the back of the car and to check that both were wearing face masks.

“We were told we cannot both sit in the front,” said the CNN journalist, who was on her way to hospital with her husband to visit a sick relative.