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Health Ministry Reports Most New COVID-19 Cases In 4 Months

ITALY

Italy's health ministry has reported that 1,733 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, the highest daily case total in four months.

  • Italy has recorded in excess of 1,000 new cases per day for 10 of the past 14 days.
  • However, its rising caseload has not seen a spike in fatalities, and at present the rate of increase has not approached those levels seen in France or Spain.

Chart 1. Italy COVID-19 Cases and Fatalities, Nominal and % Chg Day-on-Day (5 day moving average)


Source: JHU, MNI

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