Italy is seeing a sudden surge of Coronavirus cases after a brief lull with City Mayor getting powers to close public areas after 21:00 and the opening times of restaurants and the size of groups therein This comes in the backdrop of Italy experiencing its record highest daily infection rate for the second day in a row with 11705 cases being reported on Sunday beating the previous 10925 cases reported a day before.
Italy in Europe was the hardest hit when the pandemic first hit the country. As of now there are 414000 confirmed cases, and 36500 deaths placing Italy at # 2 in Europe after the UK.