'It is important because it allows our hospitals to breathe,' said Italy's civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli.
Pandemic-hit Italy cheered Saturday after seeing its number of intensive care cases for the coronavirus that stretched its healthcare system to breaking point drop for the first time.
"This is a very important data point because the figure is decreasing for the first time," Borrelli told reporters.The pace and strength with which the new disease swept across Italy's northern industrial heartland caught the country off guard. But some hospitals still had to send out critical patients for treatment in less overwhelmed regions last month.
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