Covid: contagion slows down, 37,255 cases, 544 victims. More than 500 hospitalizations – Health



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The contagion curve is down: 37,255 new cases of coronavirus have been identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The victims in the last 24 hours are 544. The total number of infected people identified since the beginning of the epidemic, including victims and those cured, is now 1,144,552. The victims are 44,683. The positives are currently 688,435 (+24,509), those healed or discharged 411,434 (+12,196).

There are 484 hospitalized with Covid symptoms in Italy in the last 24 hours, which brings the total to 31,398, according to data from the Ministry of Health. In home isolation there are 653,731 (+23,949)

There are 76 more patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The total number of people in intensive care is now 3,306 throughout Italy. 227,695 coronavirus swabs have been made in the last 24 hours, more than 27,000 less than yesterday, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The relationship between positives and tests performed is 16.3%.

“Postpone the start of the curfew on Christmas Eve? The priority now is to ensure the country at the health level. It is too early to talk about it. It will have to be a prudent and conscientious Christmas ”. Thus, the Minister of Autonomous Affairs Francesco Boccia on the hypothesis of postponing the start of the curfew, today at 10 pm, for Christmas night. “We have not thought about it yet,” he says, “we will see it after the expiration of the last Dpcm, on December 3, and it will depend on the data of the epidemic.

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