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In the last 24 hours, 14,837 new cases of coronavirus infection and 634 deaths from COVID-19 have been registered in Italy.
Those currently hospitalized are 33,426 (480 less than yesterday), of which 3,345 in the intensive care units (37 less than yesterday) and 30,081 in the rest of the wards (443 less than yesterday). A total of 149,232 swabs were tested. 9.9 percent of the swabs for which the report was reported were positive. Yesterday the registered infections were 13,720 and 528 deaths.
The region with the most cases was Veneto (3,145). It is followed by Lombardy (1,656), Emilia-Romagna (1,624), Lazio (1,501), Sicily (1,148) and Campania (1,080).
The provinces with the highest number of cases are Rome (1,142), Verona (604), Vicenza (584), Treviso (578), Bologna (541), Padua (535), Venice (503), Naples (441), Catania (440), Milan (420) and Udine (400).
Today’s main news:
- On Tuesday afternoon a new Council of Ministers should have been held to debate the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which is the one that will contain the approximately 100 projects that will be financed with money from the Recovery Fund, the main community instrument to balance the economic crisis provoked. of the coronavirus pandemic. But the Council of Ministers has been postponed, the news agencies write: it is the latest development of a heated confrontation within the government, which is having great problems finding an agreement on the structure of management of the funds, on the method it will follow. and about his own institution. Here we have explained in more detail why the government does not agree with the Recovery Fund.
- The SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) announced with a press release that from Thursday, December 10, rail connections between Switzerland and Italy will be interrupted. The provision refers to both long-distance traffic and regional TILO traffic (Ticino-Lombardy regional trains). According to some Swiss newspapers, SBB would consider the controls provided for in Article 9 (Obligations of carriers and shipowners) of the latest Ministerial Decree of December 3 to be impractical for its operators, such as, among others, the obligation to measure the body temperature of passengers . and the presentation of the certificate proving a negative swab.
- Starting tomorrow, December 9, in Basilicata, primary and secondary students will be able to return to attend classes in person. In the last order signed by the president of the region Vito Bardi on December 5, the suspension of face-to-face teaching activities has not been extended, which will therefore be carried out according to the procedures established by the Decree of the Prime Minister of December 3.
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