Italy has become the first European Union country to record more than 30,000 coronavirus deaths, yet crowds return to its streets as lockdown measures are eased. The Health Ministry registered 243 deaths on Friday, bringing the total of those who died in the country to 30,201. Britain today declared 626 more coronavirus deaths, including a six-week-old baby who is thought to be Britain's youngest known victim, taking the UK's official fatality toll past 31,000 on the 75th anniversary of VE day. Italy's new rules for 'phase two' of the lockdown Italy has now started to lift its near-two-month lockdown. South Korea's 13 fresh cases reported on Friday were its first increase higher than 10 in five days.

Source: Daily Mail May 08, 2020 20:38 UTC