Italy Reports 570 Deaths in 24 Hours, PM Announces Lockdown Extension

Volunteers looking on during the opening of a newly operative field hospital for coronavirus patients, financed by US evangelical Christian disaster relief NGO Samaritans Purse in Cremona, southeast of Milan on March 20, 2020. Miguel Medina/AFP via Getty Images

Italy on Friday reported 570 more deaths from the CCP virus, bringing the total number of fatalities to more than 18,800, which is still the highest out of Europe.

Authorities noted that the number of new deaths and cases have decelerated over the past several days, according to ANSA, coming more than a month after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a nationwide lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus.