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Italy sees rays of hope in Covid-19 death rate data

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Italy's top coronavirus response official has attributed two successive declines in the daily death rate to a painful national lockdown that appeared to be finally bearing fruit.

But Angelo Borrelli also noted that the real number of infections was probably 10 times higher than the official count. The civil protection chief also said the nation of 60 million was on course to overtake China's total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in a week. "The measures we took two weeks ago are starting to have an effect," Mr Borrelli said in an interview with the La Repubblica daily.

He said more data over the next few days will help understand "if the growth curve is really flattening." The Mediterranean country has seen the number of daily fatalities

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