ROME, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Italy recorded 5,372 new coronavirus infections on Friday, according to the Italian Health Ministry.
As recently as mid-August, infection rate totals remained steady in the low hundreds, even as they climbed in other parts of Europe. Italy had been praised by leaders and the media for mostly keeping the pandemic at bay.
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