for more, let's bring in journalist sema gupta following developments from rome. more and more bad news for italy. how are authorities explaining this new record figure of almost 1,000 deaths in just one day? reporter: you're absolutely right. that immense figure, the deadliest day since this emergency y began, s shocking figures, really. but earlier on friday you had representatives from italy's national health institute essentially saying that they're cautiously optimistic despite the immense figures because they say the curve of contagion iss flattening and it has been ever so slightly since march 20. so you even had the governor of lombardi region saying that the region may start to see a decline in infections in the next few days. if you recall, it is the hardest hit region in the north of italy. so we're nowhehere near the peak in terms of number of infections and we're not at a declining phase either here in italy but there is a sign that days are diminishing in terms of number of infections so containment authorities are saying is even more i importantnt n

and let's get more now we are joined by sema gupta who joins us from rome and see what we just heard there criticism that people are not heeding the lockdown still people who are out and about does that appear to be true from where you're standing. well what we do understand is that there's a feeling as far as the officials are concerned that there are too many people out and about without a valid reason and you know you planning to ban all outdoor activity they're seeing too many people taking the jogging and coming out to the street perhaps frustrated about being stuck indoors but they say you really need to take extra measures now because we're still nowhere near the peak of inspections here it's only the heads of the civil protection services say that that could be another week or perhaps even 2 weeks from now and so everybody needs to buckle down and stay at home now just on thursday alone there were $9600.00 violations of the lockdown visions and it's precisely because of this that they're looking at putting in more stringent measures a school closure expected to be extended ro