MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported 488 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, up from 472 the previous day, while the daily dose of new diseases fell further to 13,331 from 13,633.
Some 286,331 tests for COVID-19 were performed in the past day, against 264,728 previously, the health ministry said.
Italy has now recorded 85,162 COVID-19-related deaths since the uprising erupted in February last year, the second highest in Europe after Britain and the sixth highest in the UK. the world. The country has reported 2.46 million cases.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 – excluding those in intensive care – stood at 21,403 on Saturday, compared with 21,691 days earlier.
174 were admitted to intensive care units, up from 144 the previous day. The total number of patients with intensive care changed at only 2,386, against 2,390.
As the second wave of epilepsy in Italy accelerated sharply in the first half of November, hospital admissions rose by about 1,000 per day, while the use of intensive care rose by about 100 in the day.
Reporting by Valentina Za; Edited by Alex Richardson and David Holmes