ROME: Italian officials said Sunday they may soon consider easing restrictions after seeing the daily coronavirus death toll plunge to its lowest in more than two weeks. The 525 official Covid-19 fatalities reported by the Civil Protection Service was the Mediterranean...
The number of critical patients edged down from 3,994 on Saturday to 3,977 on Sunday - the second successive decline.
"If these data are confirmed , we will have to start thinking about Phase 2," he said in reference to an easing of a month-long national lockdown. Italy's second phase against a virus that has now officially killed 15,887 may be trickier for the government to pull off than the first as no Western nation has tried it since the virus spread from China to Europe in February.
Italian health officials remain cautious because they know the death toll is falling as everyone is spending almost all their time at home."But we should not let our guard down," he warned.Its pace of new coronavirus deaths slowed for the fourth day on Sunday in the country with the second highest death toll from the global pandemic.
Yesterday, it reported 637 fatalities in the previous 24 hours - a 5 per cent increase in total and about half the pace of a week previously. -
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