Italy's tally of coronavirus cases is probably ten times higher than the official figure of 64,000, the head of the agency collecting the data said today. The latest figures show that 6,077 people have died in Italy in barely a month, close to double the number of fatalities that China has suffered. The missing cases could help to explain Italy's high death rate of around 9.0 per cent, higher than Britain, France or Spain and much higher than Germany. But Borrelli and other Italian medical officials have been extremely cautious to draw any definitive conclusions from the two-day drop. Italy's daily deaths are still higher than those officially recorded in China at the peak of its crisis in Wuhan's central Hubei province.

Source: Daily Mail March 24, 2020 12:22 UTC