There are now more than 846,000 cases of Covid-19 worldwide.
41,000 people have died - more than 12,000 of those in Italy.
The second-worst hit country is Spain, which has reported more than 8,000 fatalities.
In the US, the number of people to have died has passed 3,500.
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Meanwhile in Ireland, the health watchdog is to carry out a risk-assessment to see which nursing homes need more help to deal with Covid-19.
It's one of the recommendations top health officials have made to deal with clusters of the virus in nursing homes.
Yesterday, the virus claimed a further 17 lives, bringing the death toll to 71, while 325 new cases have been confirmed.
