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In one day, 731 patients died in Italy, according to data from the Health Ministry on Monday night, the highest since April 3. At the same time, Lombardy, which belongs to the highly epidemic red zone, has called for restrictions to be eased, writes the MTI.
The death toll in Italy reached 46,464. In just one day, just over 32,000 new patients were screened, compared to over 27,000 in the past, but with nearly fifty thousand more tests performed.
The epidemic curve remains stable, without a significant jump in the last week, but the number of patients admitted to the intensive care unit is increasing day by day, reaching one hundred and twenty in 24 hours. There are currently 3,612 patients on ventilators, more than 33,000 patients are treated in the hospital, and the number of active infections is approaching 734,000.
In the province of Lazio, around Rome, the number of patients who became intensive in one day increased: 120 patients were connected to a ventilator in one day, a quarter of them in Lazio.
In Lombardy, which has been a focal point since spring and has a population of ten million, the number of patients examined in one day was still more than eight thousand and 202 died. The number of active patients in the province has exceeded 156 thousand, there are 894 intensively. Hospital saturation in the region has exceeded seventy percent.
The governor Attilio fontana However, he urged that as of next week Lombardy be no longer declared a high risk, that is, a red zone, but classified as a moderately dangerous orange category. The same has been requested by the Piedmont region, which is currently classified as red. The difference between the two levels is, among other things, the less strict closure of the hotel and retail trade.
By contrast, the Abruzzo province has declared itself a red zone since Wednesday. The southern Puglia medical association has also called for the region to be closed after data shows that one in four people in the more than four million range tested positive.
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