Italian situation “encouraging” almost 3 weeks after end of lockdown
Italy continued to see a downward trend in the novel coronavirus infections on Friday, almost three weeks after the exit of a national lockdown.
With 652 new infections reported over the past 24 hours, the country’s total active infections stood at 59,322, down from 60,960 on Thursday, according to the Civil Protection Department.
The Lombardy region with Milan as its capital, where the pandemic officially first broke out on Feb. 21, still led the way in terms of active infections with 25,933 cases. At the other end of the spectrum was the northern Valle d’Aosta region in the Alps with only 43 infections.
Nationwide, recoveries rose by 2,160 within the 24-hour period, bringing the total to 136,720, up from 134,560 on Thursday.
Of those who tested positive for the coronavirus, 595 are in intensive care, down by 45compared to Thursday, and 8,957 are hospitalized with symptoms, down by 312 over the past 24 hours, the Civil Protection Department said.
The remaining 49,770 people, or 84 percent of those who tested positive, are isolated at home with no symptoms or only mild symptoms.
With 130 new deaths within a day, 32,616 people have succumbed to the virus-caused disease in Italy as of Friday.
The overall number of COVID-19 infections, fatalities, and recoveries has risen to 228,658 cases as of Friday, up from 228,006 cases on Thursday.
Source: Xinhua
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Lombardy, this beautiful region of Italy, that has Milan, as it’s Capital, the anguish, that it has suffered, through this novel coronavirus pandemic, effects and touches ALL deeply.
Lombardy, the birth region of (2) two loved Popes of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, who occupied , the Chair of St. Peter, from the late 1950’s through to the late 1970’s – in there Pontificates.
We join – Saint Pope John XX111 and Saint Pope Paul V1 – in our prayers, thoughts, deeds and actions, for there beloved Brothers and Sisters of there birthplace region in Italy, in these testing and challenging times, not forgetting, the entire people of wider Italy and the World.
The statistical figures in Lombardy, appear in decline, and we Trust & Hope that this trend continues, with rapidness, that permits, the lives of people, in this blessed and beautiful region of Italy, to find there lives, reverting back to a semblance of normality.