Much of Italy is now in lockdown, including the densely populated northern Lombardy region, after the death toll for 24 hours hit 445 – a six-month record.
Italy is now split into three zones – red for high risk, then orange and yellow. The red areas are Lombardy, Piedmont and Aosta Valley in the north and Calabria in the south.
The whole country has a night curfew.
In Italy’s red zones, which cover an estimated 16.5 million people out of a population of 60 million, you can now only leave home for work, health reasons, essential shopping or emergencies, but all non-essential shops are closed.
Bars and restaurants are also shut but people can exercise near their homes if they wear masks and hairdressers can remain open.
For the first time in Germany, the 24-hour total for people newly infected has surpassed 20,000 – officially it was 21,506 on Friday.
Denmark has imposed a lockdown in seven North Jutland provinces because of concerns over a coronavirus mutation found in mink that can spread to humans. Denmark has started culling all its mink, farmed for their fur – a population as many as 17 million animals.
Poland is shutting its cinemas, museums and most shopping centres on Saturday, after new daily infections rose to a record of nearly 24,700.
