Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths in Italy as of May 2022

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 166,032 as of May 23, 2022. On December 3, 2020, 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 months, however, the country saw the end to this terrible situation: as of May 2022, roughly 90 percent of the total Italian population was fully vaccinated.

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