As of 12 March , among nations with at least one million citizens , Italy has the world 's highest per capita rate of positive coronavirus cases at 206.1 cases per million people ( 3.6x times the rate of China ) and is the country with the second-highest number of positive cases as well as of deaths in the world , after China .
In March , Italy had fewer cases of coronavirus than China if the province of Hubei was included .