There are now more than 846,000 cases of Covid-19 worldwide.
41,000 people have died - more than 12,000 of those in Italy.
The second-worst hit country is Spain, which has reported more than 8,000 fatalities.
Meanwhile in the US, the number of people to have died has passed 3,500.
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