Belgium, where confirmed cases neared 20,000, also saw a sign of change in trend. For the first time since the start of the pandemic in the country, the daily number of people cured overtook that of people hospitalized.
The public health institute Sciensano, in charge of monitoring and analyzing the COVID-19 data, reported that in the past 24 hours, 499 COVID-19 patients have been hospitalized while 504 people have left the hospital.
NO LETUP IN ANTI-VIRUS EFFORTS
Borrelli, the head of Italy's Civil Protection Department, has put the measurable results down to the nationwide quarantine. But he warned against complacency.
"It is still essential for residents to continue to stay at home and to leave only for the proven needs allowed" under quarantine rules, he said.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced the country's first national coronavirus quarantine, the first in Europe, earlier last month.
Officially, it is set to expire on April 13, though Borrelli and other ranking officials have speculated it will be further extended far beyond that date.
In Spain, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, at a televised press conference on Saturday, said he would ask the parliament to extend the State of Alarm, which was imposed on March 14 and due to expire on April 12, until "24 hours on April 25."
Sanchez said the continued fall in the number of new cases showed that the lockdown imposed on Spain and other measures were "giving their reward but that Spain needed "to maintain the same discipline and the same tenacity."
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