Volunteer nurses arrive at Bologna Guglielmo Marconi airport in Italy, April 4, 2020. (Photo by Gianni Schicchi/Xinhua)

Italy has registered 128,948 infections since the start of the outbreak, up from Saturday's 124,632.

ROME, April 5  -- Italy registered 525 coronavirus deaths over the past 24 hours, the lowest one-day total since March 19, health officials said Sunday.

The country registered its one-day high of 969 fatalities on March 27. The death toll has decreased in five of nine days since then.

Still, the coronavirus pandemic that claimed its first life in Italy on Feb. 20 has now resulted in a total of 15,887 deaths, more than in any other country based on official figures.