Italy registers 74,386 coronavirus cases
Priest Don Giuseppe Arnaudo (right) holds a crucifix and blesses houses along with Don Kresimir Busic on March 25, 2020, in Manta, near Cuneo, northwestern Italy, as part of a countryside procession against the coronavirus pandemic.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 7,503 lives in locked-down Italy until Wednesday with the cumulative total number of the confirmed cases reaching 74,386, according to new data released by the Civil Protection Department.
This cumulative figure comprised 57,521 people who have tested positive so far, and 9,362 people who have recovered and the 7,503 deceased since the pandemic broke out in the northern regions on February 21.
Among the people positive to the coronavirus, some 30,920, asymptomatic or with light symptoms, are currently under home confinement, and 3,489 are in intensive care, while the rest 23,112 are hospitalized in normal wards, the Civil Protection Department added.
On Tuesday, the official number of assessed case was 69,176.
