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In one day, 40,902 new patients were registered in Italy, compared to almost 38,000 24 hours earlier. This is the highest daily number of cases since February. More than 255,000 tests were carried out, twenty thousand more than the day before. Approximately 31,000 patients are treated in the hospital and there are 3,230 in the intensive care unit. The number of active patients approached 700,000. In one day 550 patients died, after the previous 636. The death toll rose to 44,139.
The number of high-risk provinces has risen to eight, after the Campania and Tuscany regions have also been classified as red.
In Rome, part of the yellow zone, the pedestrian streets of the city center are closed for the weekend, where a large crowd swarmed the previous Saturday-Sunday, even though the shops were closed. Metro stops in the city center will also be closed and a limited number of pedestrians will be allowed on some streets.
In Rome, in the square in front of the Pantheon, the hosts again staged an anti-government demonstration, which included restaurant owners who walked from Florence to the capital as a token of their protest against the restrictions.
In Naples, market workers demonstrated in the city center demanding “taxes from the rich”. They are working to establish epidemiological field hospitals in the city of a million in the south and are looking for anesthesiologists even from abroad.
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