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Italy's coronavirus situation is 'largely out of control', a leading health expert has warned as doctors called for a new national lockdown to counter a rising second wave of coronavirus cases. 

'I am afraid there is no doubt that the situation is largely out of control,' Massimo Galli, the head of the infectious diseases department at Milan's renowned Sacco hospital, told RAI television on Monday.

'Other illnesses don't go on strike because Covid exists and we have to get organised... otherwise the pandemic will end up doing damage that goes beyond the already very sad number of deaths,' he added.