Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in Italy since February 24, 2020

Since the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy, started in February 2020, many people who contracted the infection died. The number of deaths amounted to 99,785 as of March 7, 2021. On December 3, 993 patients died, the highest daily toll since the start of the pandemic. The region with the highest number of deaths was Lombardy, which is also the region that registered the highest number of coronavirus cases and is the epicenter of the outbreak in the country.

Italy's death toll was one of the most tragic in the world. In the last weeks, however, the country started to see the end of this terrible situation: at the end of December 2020, the administration of the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines began.

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