Italy reports first drop in number of intensive care patients as death toll continues to mount
A general view shows a bird inside a deserted Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II shopping mall in center Milan on March 31, 2020, during the country's lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the Covid-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus.
"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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