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Italy has eclipsed Britain to become the nation with the worst official coronavirus death toll in Europe.
Italy, where the continent’s pandemic began, registered 484 Covid-19 deaths in one day, one of its lowest one-day totals in about a month.
But the deaths pushed Italy’s official toll up to 64,520, while Britain’s stood at 64,267, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Both numbers understate the true toll of the pandemic.
Counting criteria differ in the two countries and many coronavirus deaths, especially early in the pandemic, are believed to have gone undetected, including those of elderly people in nursing homes who were not tested for Covid-19.