Coronavirus: Italy Sees 743 Deaths In A Day [VIDEO]

Italy’s daily COVID-19 death toll shot back up today with 743 in one day, but more evidence emerged that the coronavirus infection rate is slowing thanks to a painful national lockdown.

Three weeks into a lockdown restricting movement across the country, Italy’s daily bulletin about its COVID-19 outbreak added thousands of more infections, pushing the nation’s overall total up by 5,249, from 63,927 on Monday, to 69,176 today.

Officials said today that yesterday’s death toll of 6,077 had increased by 743, bringing the total number of people who have died from the pandemic to 6,820.

The newly-released figures come after two successive days of them falling, with 602 deaths on Monday and 650 on Sunday.

Italian authorities will be hoping this is an aberration and be buoyed after officially registered new infections rose by just eight percent, the same percentage increase as of Monday- the lowest level since Italy registered its first death on February 21.

‘The measures we took two weeks ago are starting to have an effect,’ civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli told the daily La Repubblica before the new figures came out.