Italian paramedics have been pictured rushing to the side of a man collapsed at a bus stop as the country's coronavirus death toll rises again.
The medics came to the man's aid after he collapsed in the streets of Rome last night.
Paramedics could be seen rushing to attend to the man, who was wearing a face mask and appeared to be unconscious, before loading him on a stretcher into an ambulance and taking him away.
It is not known whether the man had been struck by the vast Covid-19 outbreak in Italy.
The country is recording one death every two minutes as its death toll hits 5,476.
Another 651 people died from the virus in Italy on Sunday alone, bringing the weekend death toll alone to a devastating 1,444.
Italy has become a Covid-19 world epicentre, after it surpassed China's death toll.
Italy was one of the first country's in Europe to impose a full, dramatic lockdown as citizens are ordered indoors while authorities rush to contain the outbreak.
Official figures showed 793 people lost their lives to Covid-19 in Italy on Saturday - equating to an average of 33 deaths per hour.
This marked the biggest increase in fatalities yet over a single 24-hour period, as Italy's death toll races past China, where the virus originated in the city of Wuhan.
It comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned that Britain is only “two or three” weeks behind Italy on the spread of Covid-19.
He has told Brits that a full lockdown like Italy's could be just hours away if the public does not follow social distancing guidelines.
The PM issued the stark warning to the UK yesterday after crowds flocked to the country's beaches, parks and holiday beautyspots amid the weekend's sunny weather and Mother's Day on Sunday.
Mr Johnson warned in the daily Downing Street press conference yesterday that if Brits can not follow health experts' advice to stay home, and two metres away from one another when in public, stricter measures will be considered "within the next 24 hours."
