Italy recorded 168 deaths on Tuesday from the novel coronavirus disease, its highest single-day toll to date, pushing the number of fatalities outside China to more than 1,000, SIA reports.
Overall in Italy, 631 people have died from the Covid-19 disease caused by the virus and 10,149 have been infected in just over two weeks.
The rapid spread of the new illness forced the Italian government on Tuesday to impose a nationwide ban on public gathering and travel restrictions until April 3. It also puts Italy's health system under severe strain. Health officials warned over the weekend that hospitals in the Lombardy region around Milan where three-fourths of the deaths have occurred were running out of beds. The number of intensive care patients rose by 144 to 877 nationwide.
The overwhelming majority of the fatalities and infections were still being recorded in the north, with poorer southern regions largely spared. Top government ministers have been warning for days that Italy might not be able to cope if the disease began to rapidly spread through the south. Italy also imposed unprecedented national restrictions on its 60 million people on Tuesday to control the deadly coronavirus. In a desperate bid to stem the spread, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte went on television to announce the entire country would effectively be placed on lockdown from Tuesday.
"I am going to sign a decree that can be summarised as follows: I stay at home," Conte said.
"Travel must be avoided across the entire peninsula unless it is justified by professional reasons, by cases of need or for health reasons," he told Italians.
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