The number of deaths of people testing positive for the coronavirus in Italy now tops 2,100.
Italy’s civil protection agency said 349 people have died in the past 24 hours. That brings to 2,158 the number of deaths since the first locally transmitted case was diagnosed on Feb. 21.
The number of positive diagnoses rose by 13%, to 27,980.
Angelo Borelli, the head of the civil protection agency said that cases had slowed in Lombardy, the hardest-hit region.