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The number of deaths with the coronavirus in Italy reached 7,503 on Wednesday, with 683 registered in 24 hours, a figure lower than the previous day.

The current positive cases amount to 57,521, 3,491 more than on Tuesday, bringing down the new infections for the fourth consecutive day, according to the data offered today by Civil Protection.

There have been 9,362 discharges so far (almost a thousand in the last 24 hours) and the total number of coronavirus cases since the outbreak was detected in Italy is 74,386. The data has not been provided this time by the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, because he has presented feverish symptoms early in the morning.

The pandemic in the country is especially fattened with the toilets, since 31 have died from the coronavirus . This Wednesday another doctor died in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region, the most affected in the country where 1,643 new cases have been registered today in the last 24 hours. The councilor for Health in the region, Giulio Gallera , has indicated that this is a number in decline compared to yesterday: "In the last 24 hours, 296 positives have been detected, the figure is significantly lower than on Tuesday, when there were 402 ".

"I want to thank the doctors and nurses for their extraordinary work in saving the lives of others," Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said today. "I say this on behalf of the Government, we will not forget you," he insisted.

More than 5,000 healthcare professionals in Italy are currently infected with the virus. This has been denounced in a letter by the medical union Anaao Assomed sent to the president of the Superior Institute of Health, Silvio Brusaferro , in which he requests that he intervene immediately to guarantee the instruments of individual protection for workers in the sector.

The letter denounces that in the last hours two other surgeons have been subjected to intubation in the city of Turin and that in the Piedmont region there are around twenty hospitalized doctors.

The union requests that this institute and the Italian Ministry of Health guarantee, either by circular or by decree, that medical personnel in contact with suspected or positive cases of COVID-19 always wear personal protective equipment and FFP2 sanitary masks and FFP3, suitable for these circumstances. In addition, it requests that the factories of the country insist on the production of these masks and that the bureaucracy be eliminated to accelerate their import. "We get sick doing our job," laments the union.

The peak, this week

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that Italy could hit the peak of the transmission curve "this week." In addition, the WHO has indicated that the first days of the next will be crucial to check if the isolation measures imposed by the Italian Government are giving results.

The Executive has prohibited all non-essential productive activities, has closed schools and universities, leisure and business venues, except those of primary necessity, and has limited the movements of people for reasons of work, health or necessity.

In addition, it has imposed fines of between 400 and 3,000 euros on those who circulate on the streets without just cause.

The Minister of Transport, Paola De Micheli , has signed a decree that extends until April 3 limitations on the mobility of people in Italian territory by commuter trains and the closure of some Italian airports, decided as a result of the massive cancellations .

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