Italy records its lowest daily death toll from COVID-19

Italy recorded its lowest daily death toll from the novel Coronavirus in over two weeks and saw the number of critical care patients decline for the second day yesterday. The 525 official COVID-19 fatalities reported by the civil protection service were the lowest since 427 registered on March 19.

 

The civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli told reporters that this is good news but we



should not let our guard down. Officials also reported the first decline in the number of non-critical COVID-19 patients receiving hospital care.

 

The number of critical patients edged down from 3,994 on Saturday to 3,977 yesterday - the second successive decline. Italy's official death toll, the highest in the world, now stands at 15,887.