The number of victims of coronavirus in Italy exceeded 20 thousand

The number of victims of coronavirus in Italy exceeded 20 thousand people for the last day died in 566 patients. This is with reference to the authorities of the country reports Reuters.

Just at the moment there are 20 465 deaths, the cause of which was infection with coronavirus new. The death toll in recent days has increased compared to the previous day that killed 431 people. Italy on this indicator in second place in the world: more victims COVID-19 only in the United States.

The total number of infected country is ranked third after the United States and Spain: today in Italy there are 159,5 thousand cases of infection. If this was today new cases less than usual: this low figure occurs for the first time since last Tuesday, April 7th.

Decrease the number of patients in intensive care units: they are at the time of publication 3260, and a day earlier, was 3343. This is the tenth day in a row that this figure is reduced. The number recovered has increased by more than 1200 and reached 35,4 thousand.

In total there are over 1.8 million cases of infection with coronavirus, most of them are identified in United States — there has infected more than 569,1 thousands of people. Victims of the virus around the world were at least 117,4 thousand cases.