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In the last 24 hours in Italy, 19,037 new positive cases of coronavirus and 459 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, have been detected.
Those currently hospitalized are 25,986 (673 less than yesterday), of which 2,584 in intensive care units (5 less than yesterday) and 23,402 in other services (668 less than yesterday). A total of 152,334 swabs were tested. 12.5 percent of the swabs for which the report was reported were positive. Yesterday the registered infections were 18,040 and 505 deaths.
The regions that have registered the most cases in the last 24 hours are Veneto (5,010), Lombardy (2,628), Emilia Romagna (2,127), Lazio (1,691) and Puglia (1,011).
Today’s main news
• This morning a van arrived in Italy with the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which as of Sunday will begin to be administered to more than 9,750 people including doctors, nurses and health workers in a “symbolic vaccination day “in contemporary in all regions. The vaccination campaign itself will begin in the next few days. The van, which left the Pfizer factories in Belgium, passed through the Brennero Pass, in the province of Bolzano, and from there was escorted by the Carabinieri to the Spallanzani hospital in Rome. He will then be transported by the army to the other 20 centers where the first vaccinations will take place on Sunday.
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