Residents wearing a face mask walk past a child’s drawing reading “Everything will be OK” in the village of Vertova near Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy on March 24, 2020, where 36 people died of coronavirus in 23 days.
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 743 to 6,820, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said, reversing a decline in fatalities seen over the last two days.
On Monday 602 people died. That followed 650 deaths on Sunday and 793 on Saturday — the highest daily figure since the contagion came to light on Feb. 21.
The total number of confirmed cases in Italy rose to 69,176 from a previous 63,927, an increase of 8.2%, in line with Monday’s growth rate, the Civil Protection Agency said