Italy’s increase both in new cases of COVID-19 and deaths of infected patients is similar to the previous day’s increase.
Epidemiologists and other health experts have described for several days now a kind of plateauing in the numbers, welcome news compared to the steep increases that alarmed the world earlier in Italy’s outbreak.
The general levelling off of the daily increases in new cases has bolstered cautious assessments that Italy’s national lockdown, now in its fourth week, is bearing fruit in containing the new coronavirus.
Civil Protection agency chief Angelo Borrelli announced Friday that the nation’s death toll stood at 14,681.
Total cases number nearly 120,000.
Growing seemingly relentlessly was the list of dead doctors caring for COVID-19 patients, with the toll reported to be at 77.