ROME, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Italy's coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, reversing a month of declines to climb by 14.4 percent over the last week.
Italy, the first European country to be hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, saw the number of cases rise from mid-June to mid-July and then decline until the last few days -- the latest of a series of infection waves that have hit the country.
