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Today’s newsletter, December 22, reports an increase in infections, but records the lowest positive report for cases analyzed in December
In the last 24 hours in Italy they have been detected 13,318 new cases of coronavirus compared to 166,205 swabs performed78,316 more than the previous day, according to the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health. And of 628 increased casualties, which amount to 69,842 deaths.
The positivity rate, the relationship between new infections and proven cases, has decreased to 8% from 12.4% yesterday. This is the lowest value in December, the percentage recorded at the end of October.
Intensive care patients are 2,687 in all of Italy, 44 less than yesterday in the balance between inputs and outputs. Instead, 201 new beds are occupied in resuscitation. In the rordinary wards 24,948 people are hospitalized, with a decrease of 197 patients compared to yesterday.
The total number of people infected since the beginning of the epidemic has reached 1,977,318 people. the currently positive there are 605,955, with a decrease of 7,627 people. THE healed and discharged they have increased by 20,315 units, leading to 1,301,573 since the emergency began.
Following Piedmont’s request to the Ministry of Health in future bulletins, rapid swabs will also be calculated, in addition to molecular tests.
Coronavirus, new cases region by region
Veneto continues to be the region that registers the most new cases of coronavirus every day. The increase in positives in the last 24 hours is shown below region by region.
- Lombardy: +2,278
- Piedmont: +674
- Campania: +791
- Veneto: +3,082
- Emilia Romagna: +1,162
- Lazio: +1.288
- Tuscany: +309
- Sicily: +894
- Liguria: +216
- Apulia: +876
- March: +363
- Abruzzo: +86
- Friuli Venezia Giulia: +549
- Umbria: +114
- PA Bolzano: +102
- Sardinia: +184
- PA Trento: +136
- Calabria: +232
- Aosta Valley: +456
- Basilicata: +70
- Molise: +11
VIRGILIO NEWS | 12-22-2020 17:48
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