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In Italy, 993 patients have died from coronavirus infection in the last twenty-four hours, according to data from the Health Ministry on Thursday night. This is the highest number since the start of the coronavirus epidemic in late February.
So far, March 27 was the deadliest in Italy, then 969 patients died from the disease caused by the virus.
The number of new infections tested in one day was not remarkably high, surpassing 23,000 after the previous 20,000. The death toll, on the other hand, rose significantly on Thursday from 684 on Wednesday, MTI writes.
Most of the deaths, 347, were recorded in Lombardy, and the number of deaths in one day was around 100 in Piedmont and the province of Veneto. The death toll has reached 58,438 in the country since the outbreak.
The difference from the end of March was that in the first month of the epidemic, the number of deaths increased day by day, reaching its peak on March 27 and then starting to decline. In the week of March 18-27, trucks from the armed forces left the city of Bergamo in Lombardy for a crematorium in other areas. So far in Italy, the number of deaths has not been reduced to zero.
The number of active infections is approaching 760,000: the number of people treated in official quarantine and in hospital has dropped by more than 20 percent in the last week. There are currently more than 31,000 in the hospital, with 3,597 patients treated in the intensive care unit, which is equivalent to 0.5 percent of those infected.
Domenico Arcuri, the government commissioner in charge of dealing with the epidemic, recalled that in the last week of March, 6.7 percent of the identified patients were treated intensively. Arcuri emphasized that the measures, which were gradually introduced starting in October and then reaffirmed starting in November, were effective: the proportion of people undergoing tests and examinations for infections fell from 18% to 10.2%. More than 226,000 tests were conducted on Thursday. Since the end of February, the number of infected has exceeded 1.6 million.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will announce the restrictive measures, which will take effect from Friday and run until January 15. According to previous reports, not only the movement of provinces, but also settlements and cities is prohibited during the holidays.
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