Coronavirus pandemic is spreading rapidly with the death toll in Italy exceeded 10,000 people. The country has already 92,472 confirmed cases with 10,023 deaths. The 889 new fatalities reported in the world’s worst-hit nation came a day after it registered 969 deaths on Friday – the highest single-day toll since the Covid-19 virus emerged late last year.

Italy now looks certain to extend its economically debilitating – and emotionally stressful – business closures and the ban on public gatherings past their April 3 deadline.

Worldwide, the total number of cases reached 685,901, while the death toll is 32,239.

The US remains the country with highest number of registered infections – 124,970 with 2,238 deaths.

Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus hit 2,460 on Sunday, an official from its health ministry tweeted. Cases of infected people have reached 38,309.

Western European countries are working together to stop the expansion of the Covid-19 pandemic. More French patients infected with COVID-19 have been transferred to hospitals in Germany and Switzerland, authorities have confirmed. Thus, the countries are helping each other to curb the pandemic and treat serious cases.

Switzerland’s coronavirus death toll rose to 257 on Sunday from 235 the day prior, and its infection count rose overnight by 1,123 to 14,336. The country has 1,713 cases per 1 million population, being one of the deepest hit countries by this indicator.

Spain had 5,500 new cases to total 78,799, while the deaths rose by 624 to 6,606.