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.
The civil protection department said 305 positive cases were
in Lombardy, 98 in Veneto, 97 in Emilia-Romagna, 11 in Liguria,
three in Sicily, Lazio and Marche, two in Tuscany, Campania and
Piedmont and one in Trentino Alto Adige and Abruzzo.
Borrelli 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.
The Lazio cases, a couple of Chinese tourist and an Italian
researcher who was brought back from Wuhan, have all been cured
too after treatment at Rome's Spallanzani hospital for infective
diseases.
Two people with the virus in Sicily have also recovered.
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