Italy is set to register over 700,000
deaths this year, the highest level since World War II, Gian
Carlo Blangiardo, the president of national statistics agency
ISTAT, said on Tuesday.
Blangiardo said it can be deduced that this is linked to the
impact of COVID-19.
"2020 is not over yet but a reasonable analysis leads us to
believe that we will go over the threshold of 700,000 deaths,"
Blangiardo told RAI television.
"This is a worrying level because the last time something like
this happened was in 1944 when we were in the Second World War".
He said that Italy registered 647,000 deaths in 2019.
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