The number of official COVID-19 fatalities has more than doubled since last Thursday, when Italy’s death toll passed 1000.
Italy has reported more than 700 deaths from the virus in two days, including a record 368 in a single day on Sunday.
Italy has now confirmed 27,980 infections since the outbreak began, compared to 15,113 four days ago.
Of those 2749 people have recovered, another 414 in the past 24 hours.
That leaves Italy with 23,073 active cases of the new virus.
More than 12,800 people are currently being treated in hospital, including 1851 in intensive care.
Another 10,197 people are in self-isolation at home.
Italian health experts have predicted that the numbers will continue to rise in the coming days, with nationwide quarantine measures imposed last Wednesday expected to show results in around two weeks.
Nineteen of Italy’s 20 regions have now reported at least one death from the new coronavirus, with the exception of Basilicata in the south.
Ten regions have seen fewer than 10 deaths, and only three – Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy – have had more than 100.
Nearly 138,000 people have been tested for the virus across Italy, with around 20 per cent coming back positive.
