Italy Reports 712 New Deaths, 6,153 New Cases of CCP Virus

A medical worker wearing a face make and protection gear tends to a patient inside the new coronavirus intensive care unit of the Brescia Poliambulanza hospital, Lombardy, on March 17, 2020. Piero Cruciatti/AFP

Italian authorities on Thursday reported 712 new deaths and 6,153 new cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, suggesting that the country has not been able to “flatten the curve” yet.

The total number of deaths has exceeded 8,000 along with 80,000 cases, ANSA reported.