Italy has registered 54,088 new
COVID-19 cases and 244 coronavirus-linked deaths in the last
24-hour period, the health ministry said on Friday.
That compares to 60,381 new cases and 199 deaths on Thursday.
It said 281,658 COVID tests had been done in the last 24 hours
and the positivity rate was 19.2%, down from 20.3% on Thursday.
The ministry said 400 COVID patients were in intensive care, a
drop of six in one day, and 10,768 were in ordinary hospital
wards, a fall of 143.
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