On Friday, March 27, Italy recorded its highest
number of deaths from the coronavirus in a 24 hour span. 969 fatalities were
recorded, taking the country's total number of deaths from the coronavirus
crisis to 9,134, as reported by Italy's Civil Protection Agency. The Agency
also revealed an increase of 4,401 coronavirus cases in the past day. The
country's total number of confirmed cases (including deaths and recoveries)
stand at 86,498.
According to
the Italian National Institute of Health, 6,414 health care workers have been
infected by the virus as of Thursday. 51 of those have died, with Lombardy -
the worst-hit region accounting for 32 of those deaths.
Gloria Lisi, the deputy mayor of the Italian city
of Rimini, said a 101-year-old man was released from hospital on Thursday
after recovering from the coronavirus. "Mr.
P made it. The family brought him home yesterday evening. To teach us that even
at 101 years the future is not written," she said. Coincidentally, Mr. P
was born in 1919, during the Spanish flu pandemic which killed approximately 30
million to 50 million people worldwide.
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