worldwide is surpassed 100,000 as of Saturday in Europe Italy has seen its

largest daily increase so far Italy's Civil Protection Agency said

Saturday that 1247 new cases were confirmed in the previous 24 hours

bringing the total to at least 5,000 883 another 36 people there have died from

the disease put in the death toll in Italy at more than 200 meanwhile the

number of confirmed cases in France reached almost 950 the French health

authorities confirmed 336 new cases on Saturday which is also that country's

biggest daily increase