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Coronavirus infections in Lombardy, Italy’s hardest hit region in the first wave of Covid-19, have more than doubled in a day and cases across the country have eclipsed 15,000.
Cases in Lombardy leapt to 4,126 in the last 24 hours, of which 1,858 were registered in the economic hub of Milan.