Italian health officials voiced cautious hope Sunday after the coronavirus death toll edged down from the previous day's world record and the rate of infections slowed.
A man wearing a face mask, right, stands by the coffin of his mother as a priest reads prayers and undertakers stand by during a funeral service in the closed cemetery of Seriate, near Bergamo, Lombardy, on March 20, 2020 during the country's lockdown aimed at stopping the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Picture: Piero Cruciatti / AFP
But top health officials sounded — while not upbeat — encouraged to see daily deaths fall back from Saturday’s grisly 793 to a slightly less shocking 651.“The figures announced today are lower than those for yesterday,” Italian civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli told reporters. Conte has also indicated that the national lockdown will almost certainly be extended for an unknown number of weeks or even months.
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