Relief in sight, as Italy reports lower increase in Coronavirus deaths

Italy recorded 525 deaths from coronavirus, its lowest daily toll in more than two weeks since the 427 deaths recorded on March 19. The number of critical care patients declined for the second day, according to Al-Jazeera.

The rate of coronavirus deaths in Spain also slowed for a third straight day as the European nation reported 674 deaths compared to 809 a day earlier, as the country began its fourth week under a near-total lockdown.

Meanwhile, Iran’s president announced that “low-risk” economic activities would resume from April 11 in the Middle Eastern country worst-affected by the new coronavirus.

In the US, the hardest-hit state of New York reported 594 new deaths and 8,327 coronavirus cases in 24 hours, raising the total death toll to 4,159 with 122,031 confirmed cases.

Globally, the death toll surpassed 67,000, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, and the number of infections rose above 1.2 million.