Italy's daily coronavirus death toll and new cases push higher
Italy has topped 19,000 deaths and 150,000 cases of the coronavirus. The milestones were hit Saturday, even as the country continued to see a slight decrease in numbers of people hospitalized and in intensive care. Deaths rose by 3.2%, or 619, to 19,468, while the number of people who tested positive for the virus reached 152,271, an increase of 4,694, or 3.1%.
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- Published Date: 07:35 | 11 April 2020
- Modified Date: 07:35 | 11 April 2020
Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 619 on Saturday, up from 570 the day before, and the number of new cases climbed to 4,694 from a previous 3,951.
The daily death toll was the highest since April 6 and the rise in infections was the biggest since April 4.
After easing from peaks around the end of March, Italy's daily death and infection tallies have declined but are not falling steeply, as was hoped by Italians who have been in lockdown for a month.
The total death toll since the outbreak came to light on Feb. 21 rose to 19,468, the Civil Protection Agency said, broadly level with that of the United States, the other country worst hit in terms of absolute numbers.
The number of officially confirmed cases climbed to 152,271, the third highest global tally behind those of the United States and Spain.
There were 3,381 people in intensive care on Saturday against 3,497 on Friday -- an eighth consecutive daily decline.
Of those originally infected, 32,534 were declared recovered against 30,455 a day earlier.