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Italy’s new coronavirus cases continue to drop

Medical workers wearing protective suits stand in the reception of the area where patients suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are being treated at the Policlinico di Tor Vergata hospital in Rome on April 7, 2020. | Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images

ROME — Italy’s number of new coronavirus cases has continued to drop.

Civil Protection authorities said Tuesday there were 3,039 new cases in a 24-hour period. Italy hasn’t seen such a low daily number since the early weeks of the outbreak.

Said Giovanni Rezza, director of the infectious disease division of the national health institute: “Finally it seems we are beginning to see a lessening of new cases” after a plateau phase. He expressed satisfaction that even Italy’s most stricken region, Lombardy, is also witnessing the same trend.

Italy has 135,586 cases confirmed cases. After some 600 additional deaths were registered on Tuesday, Italy has counted 16,523 deaths in the COVID-19 outbreak.

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