The Local The Local/AFP The Local/AFP 09:03 CEST Italian officials said on Sunday they may soon have to consider easing restrictions after seeing Italy's daily coronavirus death toll plunge to its lowest in over two weeks. The 525 official Covid-19 fatalities reported by Italy's civil protection service on Sunday were the lowest since the 427 registered on March 19. They also represented a decline of 23 percent from the 681 deaths reported on Saturday. The total number of people hospitalised across Italy fell 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 patients in intensive care, from 3,994 on Saturday to 3,977 on Sunday.