On Friday, the regions of Italy that include the cities of Naples and Florence were declared coronavirus red zones, the latest signals of the woeful condition of Italian hospitals struggling with a upsurge of new admissions.
The director of the National Health Institute, Gianni Rezza, said the stricter measures were justified by a “worrisome increase in hospitalisations” as Italy’s rate of new confirmed cases reached 650 per 100,000 people.
Confirmed cases hit a daily pandemic high of nearly 41,000 and 550 people died of the virus in 24 hours, bringing the country’s known death toll to 44,139. Italy has reported a total of more than 1.1 million virus cases.
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