Coronavirus: Italy reaches its "peak"

Shy glimmers of hope in Italy, where there were 42 new entrances to intensive care on March 31st, only five days before they had been 120.

SAN DONATO MILANESE, MILAN, ITALY - 2020/03/27: A Volunteer prepares an ambulance for night service. Source: Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

With more than 105 thousand infected, over 77 thousand Italians still positive and almost 12 thousand and 500 dead, Italy reaches the peak of the infection for the coronavirus (ANSA data, updated on 1/04/2020).

"The curve shows us that we are reaching a sort of plateau", explained the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (the National Institute of Health), Silvio Brusaferro. "To say that we have reached the plateau means that we have reached the peak, but the peak is more like a plateau from which we must now descend", added Brusaferro, warning however that "we must continue with the measures of social distancing".

Andrea Eusebio, journalist at Ala News in Milan has more.

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