Italy reported 475 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, against 477 the day before, the health ministry said.
The country’s daily tally of new infections also rose to 16,310 from 16,146.
The country had reported 477 coronavirus-related deaths on Friday, against 522 the day before.
It has so far registered 81,800 COVID-19 deaths since the virus came to light last February, the second-highest toll in Europe and the sixth-highest in the world.
The country has also reported 2.369 million cases to date, the health ministry said.
Italy has implemented a new series of restrictions against the pandemic.
These include a ban on travelling outside one’s region and the toughening of the criteria leading to local lockdowns.
Since November 2020, the country has implemented a system in which regions are attributed to different colours and restrictions according to several factors, mostly depending on the level of pressure on hospitals and intensive care units.
With the latest governmental decree, on top of the three red, orange and yellow zones, a new “white” zone is going to be introduced, namely for regions that register only 50 new cases per day over 100,000 inhabitants.
Currently, no region in Italy is any close to these figures, and it is foreseen that it will take months before any area in the country can be considered safe to that degree.
Italy is currently recording about 17,000 new cases and more than 500 deaths every day.
The regions that are doing worse are Lombardy, the Bolzano region and Sicily, but overall 15 regions out of 20 are in a critical state, between orange and red zone.
