The nation registered 525 fatalities over the past 24 hours.
While the latest daily death toll is still high, Italy has not recorded less than 600 fatalities in a 24-hour period since March 19.
“This is good news but we should not let our guard down,” the head of Italy’s civil protection agency, Angelo Borrelli, told reporters.
The total number of people hospitalised across Italy also fell by 61 for the first time (from 29,010 to 28,949 in a day).
This comes accompanied by another positive figure: it’s the second day-to-day decrease in the number of intensive care unit beds in use.
The number of new confirmed cases in Italy did go up by 2972, which represents a 3.3 per cent rise compared to Saturday’s figures, but this is still half the number of new cases reported on March 20.
The nation’s total number of deaths has now passed 15,800, while more than 128,000 people have tested positive for the virus.
Borrelli added that 21,815 people had so far recovered from coronavirus in the country.
The figure comes as Italy remains in a state of nationwide lockdown, which was first introduced almost a month ago.
