More than 70 per cent of Italy's coronavirus deaths have been among men but scientists there admit they are mystified by the gender gap. More than 70 per cent of coronavirus deaths in Italy are men but scientists admit they are 'mystified'. Across the first 1,697 coronavirus deaths in Italy, 71 percent (1,197) were men and 29 per cent (493) were women, data from Italy's top health research agency Istituto Superiore di Sanità showed. More researchers from Italy, who published their findings in the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, last week, found the male to female ratio of 827 deaths in Italy was 80 per cent men to 20 per cent women. Italians over the age of 70 represent more than 87 per cent of deaths there, according to the country's main health agency.

Source: Daily Mail March 20, 2020 15:15 UTC