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PHOTO There are 13,318 new cases of coronavirus identified in Italy in the last 24 hours, for a total of 1,977,318 since the beginning of the emergency. On the other hand, the increase in victims in one day is 628, bringing the total to 69,842. To date in Italy there are currently 605,955 positives, with a decrease in the last 24 hours of 7,627. The increase in patients cured and discharged in one day is 20,315, which brings the total since the beginning of the emergency to 1,301,573. There are 166,205 Covid swabs made in the last 24 hours, an increase of nearly 79,000 from 87,889 on Sunday. The ratio of swabs done to positives detected is 8.01%, a sharp decline from 12.3% on Monday.
There are 2,687 patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, 44 less than yesterday in the balance between entries and exits. According to the Ministry of Health, the daily admissions to resuscitation are 201. In the ordinary wards, 24,948 people are hospitalized, with a decrease of 197 patients compared to yesterday.
The contagion curve in Italy is confirmed to be substantially stagnant since the beginning of December, although the positivity rate in the last 24 hours has dropped from 12% to 8%. Two positive elements remain: the slightly downward trend in new ICU admissions and the sharper downward trend in deaths, that, despite today’s 628 victims due to the usual weekly fluctuations, it seems increasingly destined to fall below 500 a day on average by Christmas. This was explained by the mathematician Giovanni Sebastiani, from the ‘Mauro Picone’ Institute of Calculus Applications of the National Research Council (Cnr-Iac), commenting on the trend of the data updated to date.
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