ITALY: “Infections continue to slow as Italy records 604 more coronavirus deaths.

The number of patients in intensive care also decreased by 106 to 3.792 on Tuesday, and 1.555 patients have recovered from the virus in 24 hours, with recoveries rising to a total of over 24,000.

There were 604 new fatalities reported.

In total, 17,127 lives have now been lost to the virus in Italy, and there have been 135.586 cases in total since the outbrk began, according to official figures.

If you look at lives lost as a percentage of total cases, the death rate looks pretty awful.