The number of people currently suffering from Coronavirus in Italy has risen to 50,418 (3,780 more than yesterday) however the total number of people to have recovered now stands at 7,432 (up 408 since yesterday).
“Today the downward trend is confirmed” – said the Lombardy regional health councilor Giulio Gallera – “we can say that it is the first positive day, it is not time to sing victory but we finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.”.
On 21 March Italy recorded 793 deaths, the highest one-day death count anywhere in the world, including China, since the Covid-19 pandemic began.