(ANSA) - Rome, March 25 - The World Health Organization said
Wednesday that Italy's coronavirus epidemic may peak this week.
"The slowing in the pace of growth is an extremely positive
factor, and in some regions I believe we are close to the
drop-off point of the curve, therefore the peak may be reached
this week and then fall away," WHO deputy director Ranieri
Guerra told Radio Capital.
"I believe that this week and the first days of the next will
be decisive because they will be moments in which the
government's measures of 15-20 days ago should find an effect",
he said, referring to a nationwide lockdown on movements.
Coronavirus peak possible this week-WHO
Effects of lockdown should start to show - Ranieri Guerra