The first two cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy were recorded between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020. Since then, the number of cases in Italy increased steadily, reaching over 26.9 million as of January 8, 2025. The region mostly hit by the virus in the country was Lombardy, counting almost 4.4 million cases. On January 11, 2022, 220,532 new cases were registered, which represented the biggest daily increase in cases in Italy since the start of the pandemic. The virus originated in Wuhan, a Chinese city populated by millions and located in the province of Hubei. More statistics and facts about the virus in Italy are available here.For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

After entering Italy, the coronavirus (COVID-19) spread fast. The strict lockdown implemented by the government during the Spring 2020 helped to slow down the outbreak. However, in the following months the country had to face four new harsh waves of contagion. As of January 1, 2025, 198,638 deaths caused by COVID-19 were reported by the authorities, of which approximately 48.7 thousand in the region of Lombardy, 20.1 thousand in the region of Emilia-Romagna, and roughly 17.6 thousand in Veneto, the regions mostly hit. The total number of cases reported in the country reached over 26.9 million. The north of the country was mostly hit, and the region with the highest number of cases was Lombardy, which registered almost 4.4 million of them. The north-eastern region of Veneto counted about 2.9 million cases. Italy's death toll was one of the most tragic in the world. In the last months, however, the country saw the end to this terrible situation: as of November 2023, 85 percent of the total Italian population was fully vaccinated. For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

As of January 1, 2025, the number of active coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in Italy was approximately 218,000. Among these, 42 infected individuals were being treated in intensive care units. Another 1,332 individuals infected with the coronavirus were hospitalized with symptoms, while approximately 217,000 thousand were in isolation at home. The total number of coronavirus cases in Italy reached over 26.9 million (including active cases, individuals who recovered, and individuals who died) as of the same date. The region mostly hit by the spread of the virus was Lombardy, which counted almost 4.4 million cases.For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

Context

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses which may cause illness in animals or humans. In humans, several coronaviruses are known to cause respiratory infections ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The most recently discovered coronavirus causes coronavirus disease COVID-19 - WHO

People can catch COVID-19 from others who have the virus. This has been spreading rapidly around the world and Italy is one of the most affected country.

On March 8, 2020 - Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak. - TIME

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This dataset is from https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19 collected by Sito del Dipartimento della Protezione Civile - Emergenza Coronavirus: la risposta nazionale

This dataset has two files

• covid19_italy_province.csv - Province level data of COVID-19 cases
• covid_italy_region.csv - Region level data of COVID-19 cases

Acknowledgements

Data is collected by Sito del Dipartimento della Protezione Civile - Emergenza Coronavirus: la risposta nazionale and is uploaded into this github repo.

Dashboard on the data can be seen here. Picture courtesy is from the dashboard.

Inspiration

Insights on * Spread to various regions over time * Try to predict the spread of COVID-19 ahead of time to take preventive measures

Italy recorded 25828252 Coronavirus Cases since the epidemic began, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In addition, Italy reported 190080 Coronavirus Deaths. This dataset includes a chart with historical data for Italy Coronavirus Cases.

As of May 2023, approximately 25.8 million people in Italy were infected by coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. As the chart shows, about 60 percent of the individuals infected with the virus was under 50 years old. At first, most of the cases recorded occurred among older citizens, but, as the virus spread, younger people caught it in greater numbers.

Since the first case was detected at the end of January 2020 in Italy, coronavirus spread fast and the country faced four harsh waves of contagion. The area mostly hit by the virus was the North, in particular the region of Lombardy.

For a global overview visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

Context

This data was gathered as part of the data mining project for the General Assembly Data Science course. using the API from https://rapidapi.com/astsiatsko/api/coronavirus-monitor .

Covid-19

The Covid-19 is a contagious coronavirus that hailed from Wuhan, China. This new strain of the virus has strike fear in many countries as cities are quarantined and hospitals are overcrowded. This dataset will help us understand how Covid-19 in Italy.

On March 8, 2020 - Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak.

### High Light: - Spread to various overtime in Italy - Try to predict the spread of COVID-19 ahead of time to take preventive measures

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• id: id number
• total_cases: the total number of cases have the coronavirus
• new_cases: the number of new cases with coronavirus in this day and time
• active_cases: Number of active cases with coronavirus
• total_deaths: the total deaths numbers by a coronavirus
• new_deaths: the number of new deaths in this day and time
• total_recovered: the number of recovered from the coronavirus
• serious_critical: numbe of the people have the coronavirus in serious critical
• total_cases_per1m: the number of confirmed cases per 1 million people than China
• record_date: Date of notification - YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

Inspiration

https://www.livescience.com/why-italy-coronavirus-deaths-so-high.html

New Covid cases per month in Italy, March, 2023 The most recent value is 105818 new Covid cases as of March 2023, a decline compared to the previous value of 119423 new Covid cases. Historically, the average for Italy from February 2020 to March 2023 is 676192 new Covid cases. The minimum of 885 new Covid cases was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 4944057 new Covid cases was reached in January 2022. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

This is the Italian Coronavirus data repository from the Dipartimento della Protezione Civile . This dataset was created in response to the Coronavirus public health emergency in Italy and includes COVID-19 cases reported by region. More information on the data repository is available here . For additional information on Italy’s situation tracking and reporting, see the department’s Coronavirus site and interactive dashboard . This public dataset is hosted in Google BigQuery and is included in BigQuery's 1TB/mo of free tier processing. This means that each user receives 1TB of free BigQuery processing every month, which can be used to run queries on this public dataset. Watch this short video to learn how to get started quickly using BigQuery to access public datasets. What is BigQuery . This dataset is hosted in both the EU and US regions of BigQuery. See the links below for the appropriate dataset copy: US region EU region This dataset has significant public interest in light of the COVID-19 crisis. All bytes processed in queries against this dataset will be zeroed out, making this part of the query free. Data joined with the dataset will be billed at the normal rate to prevent abuse. After September 15, queries over these datasets will revert to the normal billing rate.

The first two cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy were recorded between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020. Since then, the total number of cases in Italy increased steadily and the country faced five harsh waves of contagion. The total number of cases reached 26,964,654 as of January 8, 2025. The region mostly hit by the virus in the country was Lombardy, counting almost than 4.4 million cases. The virus originated in Wuhan, a Chinese city populated by millions and located in the province of Hubei. More statistics and facts about the virus in Italy are available here.For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

Context

To inform citizens and make the collected data available, the Department of Civil Protection has developed an interactive geographic dashboard accessible at the addresses http://arcg.is/C1unv (desktop version) and http://arcg.is/081a51 (mobile version) and makes available, with CC-BY-4.0 license, the following information updated daily at 18:30 (after the Head of Department press conference). For more detail, see https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19.

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COVID-19 data Italy

National trend Json data Provinces data Regions data Summary cards Areas Repository structure COVID-19 / │ ├── national-trend / │ ├── dpc-covid19-eng-national-trend-yyyymmdd.csv ├── areas / │ ├── geojson │ │ ├── dpc-covid19-ita-aree.geojson │ ├── shp │ │ ├── dpc-covid19-eng-areas.shp ├── data-provinces / │ ├── dpc-covid19-ita-province-yyyymmdd.csv ├── data-json / │ ├── dpc-covid19-eng - *. Json ├── data-regions / │ ├── dpc-covid19-eng-regions-yyyymmdd.csv ├── summary-sheets / │ ├── provinces │ │ ├── dpc-covid19-ita-scheda-province-yyyymmdd.pdf │ ├── regions │ │ ├── dpc-covid19-eng-card-regions-yyyymmdd.pdf

Data by Region Directory: data-regions Daily file structure: dpc-covid19-ita-regions-yyyymmdd.csv (dpc-covid19-ita-regions-20200224.csv) Overall file: dpc-covid19-eng-regions.csv An overall JSON file of all dates is made available in the "data-json" folder: dpc-covid19-eng-regions.json

Data by Province Directory: data-provinces Daily file structure: dpc-covid19-ita-province-yyyymmdd.csv (dpc-covid19-ita-province-20200224.csv) Overall file: dpc-covid19-ita-province.csv

Acknowledgements

Banner photo by CDC on Unsplash

Data from https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19 released under a CC 4.0 license. See https://github.com/pcm-dpc/COVID-19 for more detail.

Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: Hospitalized Patients (HP) data was reported at 1,315.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1,332.000 Person for 01 Jan 2025. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: Hospitalized Patients (HP) data is updated daily, averaging 7,076.000 Person from Mar 2020 (Median) to 08 Jan 2025, with 815 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 34,697.000 Person in 23 Nov 2020 and a record low of 543.000 Person in 08 May 2024. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: Hospitalized Patients (HP) data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table IT.D001: Ministry of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).

In past 24 hours, Italy, Europe had N/A new cases, N/A deaths and N/A recoveries.

New Covid cases per million people in Italy, March, 2023 The most recent value is 1792 new Covid cases per million people as of March 2023, a decline compared to the previous value of 2023 new Covid cases per million people. Historically, the average for Italy from February 2020 to March 2023 is 11454 new Covid cases per million people. The minimum of 15 new Covid cases per million people was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 83744 new Covid cases per million people was reached in January 2022. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Campania data was reported at 12,169.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 12,169.000 Person for 01 Jan 2025. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Campania data is updated daily, averaging 7,489.500 Person from Mar 2020 (Median) to 08 Jan 2025, with 812 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 12,169.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025 and a record low of 1.000 Person in 12 Mar 2020. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Campania data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table IT.D001: Ministry of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).

Total Covid cases per million people in Italy, March, 2023 The most recent value is 435237 cases per million as of March 2023, an increase compared to the previous value of 433445 cases per million. Historically, the average for Italy from February 2020 to March 2023 is 161541 cases per million. The minimum of 15 cases per million was recorded in February 2020, while the maximum of 435237 cases per million was reached in March 2023. | TheGlobalEconomy.com

Italy went through five coronavirus waves during the pandemic. As of January 8, 2025, the number of active coronavirus cases in the country was equal to approximately 203,305. On January 23, 2022, there were 2,734,906 active infections in Italy, the highest figure since the start of the pandemic. Furthermore, the total number of cases (including active cases, recoveries, and deaths) in Italy reached 26.9 million, with the region mostly hit by the virus in the country being Lombardy. Despite this notably high number of infections, deaths and hospitalizations remain rather low, thanks to a very high vaccination rate. The virus originated in Wuhan, a Chinese city populated by millions and located in the province of Hubei. More statistics and facts about the virus in Italy are available here.For a global overview, visit Statista's webpage exclusively dedicated to coronavirus, its development, and its impact.

Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Sicily data was reported at 1,511.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 1,510.000 Person for 01 Jan 2025. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Sicily data is updated daily, averaging 15,784.000 Person from Feb 2020 (Median) to 08 Jan 2025, with 827 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 277,811.000 Person in 08 Feb 2022 and a record low of 2.000 Person in 29 Feb 2020. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Sicily data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table IT.D001: Ministry of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).

Daily information on the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy (over time and by location) and on the characteristics of the reported cases. They are provided in the form of charts, maps and tables, or in the form of bulletins providing a more in-depth analysis of the gathered information.

Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Sicily data was reported at 13,145.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025. This stayed constant from the previous number of 13,145.000 Person for 01 Jan 2025. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Sicily data is updated daily, averaging 5,979.000 Person from Mar 2020 (Median) to 08 Jan 2025, with 811 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 13,145.000 Person in 08 Jan 2025 and a record low of 2.000 Person in 16 Mar 2020. Italy MH: COVID-2019: Number of Cases: To-Date: CC: Deceased: Sicily data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Ministry of Health. The data is categorized under High Frequency Database’s Disease Outbreaks – Table IT.D001: Ministry of Health: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-2019).