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  • Pandemic: Italy exceeds 4,000 deaths from coronavirus and registers 627 in one day, a new record

Italy counted this Saturday 4,825 deaths, 793 more in just 24 hours, and the number of current patients is 42,681 people, when the country is one month after the detection of the outbreak in the north, reported today the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli .

The number of people cured is 6,072, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 53,578 people , out of a total of 60 million inhabitants.

Italy is the country with the highest number of deaths in the world with coronavirus and the most affected region is Lombardy (north), which registers 2,549 deaths and 22,264 total infections. They are followed by Emilia Romagna, with 5,968 infections, Veneto (4,031), Piedmont (3,461) and Marche (1,981).

Italy celebrates this month a month since the first 16 cases were detected in Lombardy and Veneto, and it does so with figures that show that, at the moment, the country has not reached the peak in the contagion curve.

In the last 24 hours, 4,821 people have been identified with coronavirus and 943 have been cured.

The president of the Higher Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro , reiterated in the press conference that the average age of the deceased is around 80 years old and that the vast majority had other pathologies.

And he took the opportunity to reprove citizens who are not "taking seriously the danger" that stems from this pandemic.

"There are cases in which, with the excuse of taking a couple of steps, social gatherings are held", this implies that the country is unable to stop the spread of the virus that "ends up damaging the most fragile people in society, who they are the elderly, the most fragile group, "he said.

Brusaferro asked these elderly people to stay at home and advised the rest of the citizens to avoid going outside and if they do so, always keep a safe meter distance.

"We are in a phase in which the curve is still growing. We will see in the coming days if the" isolation measures adopted by the Government "are sufficient," said the president of the Higher Institute of Health, while repeating "they will be effective. if everyone follows the rules. "

The Italian Executive has already closed all public parks, has prohibited travel to second homes, has closed schools and universities, places of leisure and non-essential businesses, and has limited people's movements due to labor, health or necessity issues .

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