Italy reported fresh evidence Monday that weeks of life spent under a national lockdown could slow the spread of the coronavirus, although the country's death toll continued to grow.
Figures from Italy's civil protection service showed the rate of new COVID-19 infections hitting a new low of just 4.1 percent.
The number of people currently sick with the illness at its epicentre in the northern Lombardy region around Milan also dropped for the first time.
And the number of people who have recovered from COVID-19 across the nation of 60 million people reached a new high. "We saw 1,590 people recover in the past 24 hours," civil protection service chief Angelo Borrelli told reporters. "This is the highest number of recoveries recorded since