Italy reported 800 new virus deaths
On Saturday, Italy had reported new coronavirus deaths up to 793. A one-day record saw its toll shoot up to 4,825-38.3 percent of the world’s total. The number of COVID-19 infections rose by 6,557 to 53,578, another record. The total number of fatalities in the northern Lombardy regions around Milan surpassed 3,000. It accounts for nearly two-thirds of Italy’s fatalities.
Although since Friday, Italy has reported 1,420 deaths, it is a grim figure that suggests the pandemic is breaking through the government’s various containment and social distancing measures. Whether in the Mediterranean nation of 60 million has been under an effective lockdown since March 12, when public gatherings were banned and most stores shuttered.
The Police are out in the force across the streets of Rome in order to check the documents and putting fine on those who are outside without a valid reason. The joggers were asked to run around the block of their houses as the parks and beaches were closed. The government in Rome prepared to extend the school and other closures into the summer months.
The outbreak keeps on gathering pace in the new global epicenter of a virus that was first reported in December in China and has since transformed the world, straining health care systems, upending lives for millions and pummelling stock markets globally. The figures for deaths which have been released on Saturday shows that it has been largely contained to Italy’s richer north, whose world-class healthcare system is creaking but still not breaking.
It is still better than that is available in the poorer south, whose regions have been registered a few dozen deaths each — and which the government in Rome is watching closely. The Lazio region that includes Rome has recorded a total of 50 deaths and 1,190 infections.
