As of 14 March 2020 , among nations with at least one million citizens , Italy has the world 's highest per capita rate of positive coronavirus cases at 350.0 cases per million people , having more confirmed cases than all of mainland China outside Hubei province ; and is the country with the second-highest number of positive cases as well as of deaths in the world , after mainland China .
By March 14 , 2020 , Italy had the world 's highest number of positive coronavirus cases at more than 300 .