The Italian government is ramping up spending plans "significantly" to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus, the country's finance chief said, with the country's death toll now surpassing 12,000. Italy is the worst-hit country in Europe. The number of infections has reached 105,792, including12,428 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The southern European nation has been in lockdown since early March, meaning that most of its economic activity has stopped. People are allowed outside of their house only to buy food and medicine and there is no concrete date yet of when they will be ... (full story)