Italy's COVID-19 curve on marked upward trend


  • World
  • Wednesday, 28 Oct 2020

ROME, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Italy's COVID-19 epidemiological curve is on a marked upward trend and must be brought back down before the situation sparks tougher measures, National Institute of Health (ISS) President Silvio Brusaferro warned during a press conference on Tuesday.

"The upward trend is pretty unequivocal," Brusaferro said, explaining that the curve started rising again "from mid-August onwards," when young people returned from their summer holidays.

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