ROME
Italy on Sunday reported 651 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, bringing the number of total deaths to 5,476, still the highest in the world.
The latest figures provided by the Italian Civil Protection Department showed that the total number of cases in the country continues to grow, but at a slower pace, climbing by 9% from Saturday to reach 46,638.
The increase signals a slowing trend, when compared with an average of 15% rise in the past two weeks.
The total number of recovered people reached 7,024.
“These numbers show that there is an improvement and we hope