(ANSA) - Rome, February 27 -The number of people with the coronavirus to have died in Italy has risen to 14, while 528 have been infected, emergency commissioner and civil protection chief Angelo Borrelli told a press conference Thursday.
Borrelli stressed, however, that the death toll was provisional as the Higher Health Institute was still running checks on some of those cases.
He said that good news had come from Lombardy, the region hit hardest by the virus, as 37 people who contracted the disease there have recovered.
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