ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy, the first European country to be hit by the global coronavirus pandemic, on Monday passed the threshold of 50,000 deaths from Covid-19. Most took place earlier this year, but around 15,000 deaths have been reported since the beginning of September. The health ministry recorded 630 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 50,453. There were 22,930 new cases, to total more than 1.4 million. Italy joins […]