Italy records highest daily fatalities since April as Greece announces national lockdown
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The leaders of Italian regions that are to enter partial lockdown on Friday have lambasted the government’s new tiered system, which has categorised some areas with the lowest rates of Covid-19 in the country as high-risk red zones.
The row, which is expected to provoke more protests against restrictions in the coming days, erupted as Italy registered 34,505 new coronavirus infections on Thursday and 445 fatalities – the highest daily death toll since 23 April.
