{"id":73640,"date":"2020-05-09T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73640"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:50:25","slug":"covid-19-curve-decreasing-in-italy-as-death-toll-tops-30000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=73640","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Curve Decreasing In Italy As Death Toll Tops 30,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ROME, May 9 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Italy posted a decrease in COVID-19 intensive care cases and hospitalisations, as the death toll pushed past the 30,000 mark, according to the latest number released by the country&#8217;s Civil Protection Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nationwide total of active infections fell by 1,663 cases to 87,961, down from a total of 89,624 infections on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of those who tested positive for the virus, 1,168 are in intensive care (down by 143 patients compared with Thursday&#8217;s) and 14,636 are hospitalised with symptoms (down by 538 patients). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest &#8211; 72,157 cases, or 82 percent of those who tested positive &#8211; are quarantined at home as they are asymptomatic or have very light symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The death toll on Friday was 243, taking the total to 30,201 since the outbreak was first recorded in Italy&#8217;s Lombardy region on Feb 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total number of COVID-19 infections, fatalities, and recoveries since the pandemic began, has risen to 217,185 cases over the past 24 hours, from 215,858 on Thursday.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, May 9 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Italy posted a decrease in COVID-19 intensive care cases and hospitalisations, as the death toll pushed past the 30,000 mark, according to the latest number released by the country&#8217;s Civil Protection Department. The nationwide total of active infections fell by 1,663 cases to 87,961, down from a total of 89,624 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":73642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}