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In one day, 1,733 new patients were registered in Italy, which corresponds to the level of the epidemic of May 2, according to data from the Ministry of Health on Friday night, but the number of virus tests carried out in 24 hours also established a record.
The number of confirmed infections increased even more from the previous 1397. In the last week, the field of positives has grown by almost 40 percent. The number of tests carried out daily is also high: 113,000 tests were carried out in one day, the highest number since February. 92,000 virus tests were conducted on Thursday. And in more than six months into the epidemic, more than 9 million virus tests have been performed. The new infections of 1733 correspond to the situation of May 2, when there was still a curfew in Italy. The latter was dissolved on May 18 and Italy’s internal, provincial and external borders were reopened on June 3.
Norway has classified Italy as a dangerous country
There are currently more than 30,000 active patients, up from 12,000 in early August. The hospital has 1,607 patients in one hundred and twenty-one intensive care units. Most of those infected, 377, were examined on the last day in Lombardy, while 273 new patients appeared in Veneto and 171-171 in the provinces of Lazio and Campania. There is no longer a region where new infected people cannot be found. Nationwide, eleven patients died after ten on Thursday. The death toll increased to 35,518. The number of healed exceeds 208 thousand. Including both the cured and the dead, the number of diagnosed infections reached 274,644. It was also announced on Friday that Norway had classified Italy as a dangerous country. Oslo does not advise traveling to Italy and those arriving from there are quarantined in Norway.
They remember the victims of the epidemic
The victims of the coronavirus epidemic will be commemorated in Milan on Friday night with a concert presented at the cathedral. The Scala Opera House band, led by director Riccardo Chailly, performs Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem. The concert, which will be attended by President Sergio Mattarella, was attended by health workers, police and volunteers who work during the week of the epidemic. The Requiem is also broadcast on Italian public service television and broadcast on a projector in the dome and the main square of the first patient in the town of Codogno. The first coronavirus infected in Italy was tested in Codogno on February 21. The 38-year-old, named Mattia, was in hospital for a month, has since recovered and was playing soccer with his friends for the first time on Friday, Italian press reported.
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