... and reported in official sources. They linked it to a report about a record number of people reported i.e. issued with fines for being out and about unnecessarily as they worried that the 'good news' may make people complacent. The daily figures are a bit up and down for deaths and new infections but the general trens is definitely downwards so lockdown IS working April 5 (GMT) 4316 new cases and 525 new deaths in Italy April 4 (GMT) 4805 new cases and 681 new deaths in Italy. The number of patients hospitalized in intensive care has declined for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic in Italy The target of bringing down the reproductive number (R0) to 1 has been reached. Now the goal is to bring it below 1. Earlier in the epidemic, it was as high as 3. This value represents the average number of people to which a single infected person will transmit the virus. An epidemic with a reproductive number below 1 will gradually disappear An estimated 30,000 lives have been saved as an effect of the lockdown measures, according to Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) April 3 (GMT)
