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CNN: The number of doctors who have died in Italy since the coronavirus epidemic began has risen to 23, the Italian federation of doctors said Monday on its official website.

"Unfortunately, the sad list of doctors who fell during the Covid-19 epidemic is getting longer....
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2/“...And while the official data of infected health workers increases, released every evening by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, many doctors die suddenly, even if the cause of death is not directly attributable to the virus," the federation says in a statement on its website.
3/Some 19 of the 23 deceased doctors worked in the Lombardy region, the worst affected by coronavirus. The other four worked in Naples (Ssuth Italy), Emilia Romagna (north Italy) and Marche (central Italy).
4/According to the latest report by the Institute published on Sunday, the number of health workers infected by coronavirus is 4,824.

— From Livia Borghese in Rome and Sharon Braithwaite in London
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