In one bright spot, infection rates in Italy continued their recent downward trend. But the head of the national health institute Silvio Brusaferro said the country was not out of the woods yet, predicting “we could peak in the next few days”.
In more positive news, a 101-year-old Italian, who was born in Rimini during the deadly Spanish flu pandemic, defeated coronavirus. Vice mayor Gloria Lisi told RiminiToday that the patient was discharged from Rimini hospital and allowed to return home.
The Spanish flu was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic that lasted from January 1918 to December 1920. About 500 million people were infected.
