To clarify: Worldometer is published by a US-based and American-owned company. We don't have - and never had - any type of affiliation with any entity based in China
250 new deaths in Italy: Highest number of
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deaths per day in the world ever (including China at its peak) reported by Italy in each of the last four days
Just to clarify: the mistake was made by Italy's Protezione Civile, not by us. We were the ones to spot it, confirm it by calling Piedmont officials, and correct it for everyone
@basilikimetat
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This statement comes in response to incorrect reports associating us with a Chinese company which happens to have the same name (but no association whatsoever) as the US company which owns Worldometer
After solving this discrepancy, we changed the official total number of deaths in Italy from 8,165 to 8,215 and, accordingly, the total number of cases from 80,539 to 80,589
New graphs showing
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trends: active cases, newly infected vs. newly recovered, recovery rate vs. death rate, new cases outside Hubei, and more
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Worldometer has contacted Piedmont officials and received confirmation that the number of
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deaths in the region is 499, 50 more than reported by Protezione Civile, thus changing the total number of deaths in Italy from 8,165 to 8,215
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@BenWirtschafter
Or that a US-based company - which was incorrectly reported as being based in China because there is a company there with the same name, would say
This discrepancy was clearly due to a typing error by Italy's Protezione Civile, not to Piedmont's number of new deaths (16 today) missing in the national report, as incorrectly stated by some media