The country has also marked the first time during the pandemic that more than 2000 people have recovered and been released from hospital, according to health authorities.
There have now been almost 24,500 recoveries in Italy, the data shows.
It comes as Italy registered 542 deaths in a 24 hour period overnight and new infections slightly increased to 3836.
In total, 17,669 lives have now been lost to the virus in Italy.
While fewer new deaths and cases are being reported, the numbers remain high and officials have repeatedly warned the public to continue to follow quarantine rules as Easter approaches.
Leading Italian health expert Nino Cartabellotta said on Wednesday that for potentially looser measures to be implemented under “phase two” of quarantine, the increase in new cases would need to drop to below 1 per cent.
Wednesday’s increase in cases was 2.8 per cent.
“The health and economic effects of a new rising curve would be disastrous,” he said.
Police in Italy are preparing to tighten controls over the Easter weekend.
Cities will increase the number of roadblocks in place this weekend, enforcing rules preventing people from visiting relatives out of town or spending the Easter holiday at their second home.
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is consulting the government’s scientific committee this week about ways to safely end the lockdown, which has now been in place for almost a month.
The government is planning to implement “phase two” of lockdown measures, described as an intermediary period between the current strict lockdown and “phase three”, during which the country will begin to return to normality.
Not much is known yet about official plans for phase two and three, but the government is looking at the possibility of making changes from the end of the current lockdown period, on April 13.
