Italy on Tuesday, received reassuring evidence that its Coronavirus infection rate is slowing down.
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It is said that the painful lockdown initiated by the country at great economic cost is yielding fruits.
Health officials across the ravaged Mediterranean country are poring over every new piece of data, to see whether two weeks of bans and closures have had any effect in the crisis.
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The restrictions are due to expire on Wednesday evening, although the government is certain to extend them in some form for weeks or even months.
Italy’s 743 new deaths broke two days of successive declines that had taken the number down to 601 on Monday.
It set a world record of 793 fatalities on Saturday.
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But officially registered new infections rose just by eight percent, the same as Monday, and the lowest level since it registered its first death on February 21.
The death rate had been running at as high as 50 percent at the start of March.
“The measures we took two weeks ago are starting to have an effect,” civil protection service chief, Angelo Borrelli, told the daily La Repubblica, before Tuesday’s toll came out.
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He said more data over the next few days will help show “if the growth curve is really flattening.”
Few scientists expect Italy’s numbers if they are really dropping, to follow a steady downward line.
The slowing contagion rate is at least offering a ray of hope in the midst of a global health emergency, that is only deepening in other parts of Europe and the United States.
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Scientists believe that countries such as Spain and France are following in Italy’s footsteps, which they had failed to do weeks ago.
The numbers from the US are also similar to the track of those of Italy about 20 days ago.
Most other European countries, and some US states have followed Italy’s example, and imposed their own containment and social distancing measures, designed to stop the spread.
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