Coronavirus: Italy has second daily reduction in total deaths

Epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Europe, the Italian authorities recorded on Monday, the 22nd, the second day in a row of falling total deaths due to Covid-19 , a disease caused by this pathogen. The Italy is the second most affected country in the world by the pandemic, with nearly 63,927 confirmed cases and 6,077 deaths, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera .

“I don't feel like going very far, partly because today we see the effects of what happened. We note that the measures are working, but it is too early to talk about declining trends ”, said the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, according to the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore .

On Monday, 601 people died in Italy, which represents a 7% drop from the number recorded on Sunday 22 - 651 deaths. Since Saturday 21, when the record of 793 dead was contacted, the lethality rate of the disease has dropped by almost 25%.

The achievement, however, is not unprecedented. Italian authorities had also recorded another reduction in the daily death toll between March 15 and 17, when it had not yet surpassed 400 deaths per day. This Monday, they showed caution.

The deaths of hundreds of people each day in the country forced the Italian government to instruct the Army to collect and transfer bodies to crematoriums and cemeteries in the northern region, the most affected by the epidemic. The ban on meetings extends to funerals, which prevents relatives and friends from saying goodbye to theirs and sharing mourning. Churches were opened to accommodate the coffins