COVID: New cases have started to fall in Italy

ROME. KAZINFORM - The number of new cases of COVID-19 has started to fall at the national level although infection is still rising in many regions, the GIMBE health foundation said on Thursday, ANSA reports.

It said there were 150,033 new cases in Italy between March 17-23 down 4.8% on the 157,677 registered the previous week.
«Thanks to the restrictions (adopted) in the middle of the third wave of the COVID-19, the first signs of improvement can be seen,» GIMBE said in its regular monitoring report.
«After four consecutive weeks, the rise in the percentage of new cases has decreased».
But the report stressed that pressure on hospitals in general and intensive-care units in particular was rising It also said the the number of new cases was still increasing in 10 of Italy's 21 regions/autonomous provinces.