Italy overtakes UK coronavirus toll after 484 more deaths reported

A nurse walks inside a Covid-19 intensive care unit of the Tor Vergata Polyclinic Hospital in Rome (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

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.