Italy recorded 627 coronavirus deaths in the last day, the worst figure since January 5 (649), the Ministry of Health reported today, as the country tries to weather the pandemic by extending restrictions throughout the month of April.
The death toll, which is a sharp rise compared to recent days, increases the total to 112,374 deaths since the emergency was triggered in Italy in February 2020.
Italy is the sixth country in the world with the most recorded deaths, after the United States (556,561), Brazil (336,947), Mexico (204,985), India (166,177) and the United Kingdom (127,126), according to to data from the Johns Hopkins Institute.
In Italy, the regions with the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 are Lombardy, the epicenter of the crisis in the country and which has accumulated more than 31,000 deaths, followed by Emilia-Romagna (12,246), Veneto (10,837) and Piedmont (10,560). all in the north.
The new counts recorded in the last 24 hours in Italy are 13,708, almost twice as many as yesterday, although many more diagnostic tests have been done, 339,939, after the Easter weekend and last Monday’s holiday.
Despite this, new infections are quite lower than those recorded last week, often above 20,000 daily.
In Italy, 3,700,393 people have been infected throughout the pandemic.
On the other hand, the pressure in hospitals is decreasing and of the more than half a million people with SARS-CoV-2, the vast majority are isolated in their homes with hardly any symptoms, while 23,999 are hospitalized, 81 less than yesterday .
In Italy a total of 3,593,223 people have already been immunized with the two doses of Pfizer / BionTech vaccines, Moderna and AstraZeneca, mostly health personnel and those over 80 years of age.
To take advantage of the slight respite that the virus is giving in Italy, the Government has decided to reopen schools from today until the first year of secondary education (12 years) also in areas with worse data, known as “red zones “.
Italy in addition to maintaining strong restrictions until April 30 to curb the coronavirus and no region will be classified as mild or “yellow” risk, but all will be either at medium or high alert level, with limitations such as the closure of bars.