COVID 19- Italy Celebrate As Virus Cases Level Off.

The Italian health offcials had an announced with joy in their hearts on Friday, the 17th of April, 2020 the number of people currently being treated for COVID-19 rose by only a few hundred for the first time since the outbreak began. Figures from the civil protection service showed the number of those receiving hospital care or recovering at home under medical supervision rising by 355 to 106,962 on Friday, the 17th of April, 2020.But the figure outside the outbreakโ€™s Italian epicentre in Milanโ€™s norther region of Lombardy went up by just 11 cases.It went up by 344 in Lombardy itself.

The number had been rising by at least 1,000 a day nationally for over a month.

Angelo Berrelli, the civil protection service chief told the press that they initially had the highest number of cases but now they have the highest number of recoveries.
In his words;
โ€œIn absolute terms, we have had had the highest number of recoveries since the start of the crisis,โ€
Italyโ€™s official death toll still rose by another 575 fatalities Friday to 22,745 โ€” second-most after the United States.

The Italian government is however, waiting for the green light from leading doctors to start lifting an economically devastating lockdown that has left millions furloughed and unemployed.The current restrictions are due to expire on May 4 and the government is planning to partially lift stay-at-home orders in regions where new cases have sharply dropped. The governmentโ€™s public health council chief Franco Locatelli hinted on Friday that regions south of Rome may be allowed to resume something resembling their old way of life next month.

Italy is still digging though data from individual regions to determine the health and economic effects of its worst crisis since World War II.
Doctors, however, believe that Italyโ€™s real number of deaths could be double the official figure in some of the worst-hit provinces around Milan.

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