Xinhua News Agency, Rome, May 6 (Reporter Chen Zhanjie) Data released by the Italian Civil Protection Department on the 6th shows that Italy has cured a total of 93,245 patients with new crowns, and the number of cured patients exceeds the number of existing patients for the first time.
The data shows that 8014 new cases were cured in Italy on the same day, and a total of 93245 cases were cured; the existing cases decreased by 6939 cases to 91528 cases compared with the previous day. The Italian civil protection department said that part of the reason for the sharp increase in the number of cured people is that the most serious outbreak in Lombardy has included the number of cured people that have not been counted in the past few days into the data of the day.
In Italy, 1444 new cases were diagnosed on the same day, with a total of 214457 cases diagnosed; 369 new cases were dead, with a total of 29684 deaths. Of the existing patients, 74,426 are isolated at home, 15,769 are receiving general treatment in hospitals, and 1,333 are receiving treatment in the intensive care unit. The number of common hospitalized cases and severe cases decreased by 501 and 94 cases respectively compared with the previous day.
The European Commission said in the economic outlook report published that day that the epidemic has caused Italy's economy to fall into a severe recession. It is expected that Italy's GDP will fall by 9.5% this year. The report predicts that the Italian economy will undergo a technical rebound in the second half of the year and will grow by 6.5% in 2021.
According to data from the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance, the country ’s banks have received 1.6 million applications for the suspension of loan repayments, totaling 177 billion euros; the Italian Ministry of Economic Development has received about 92,000 small and medium enterprises requesting the government to provide loan guarantees. The total number of applications is 5.6 billion euros.
Italy started to implement a six-month emergency from January 31 to respond to the epidemic, and entered the state of "closing the city" from March 10 until May 3, and entered the anti-epidemic and economic recovery from May 4 Parallel "second stage".