(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 3 - Italy registered a record 993 deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest daily toll in the pandemic, the health ministry said Thursday.
There have been 23,225 new COVID cases in Italy in the last 24 hours, the ministry said.
This compares with 20,709 new cases and 684 more dead Wednesday.
The ratio of positives to swabs was steady Thursday at 10.2%.
There were 19 fewer intensive care cases, and 682 fewer admissions to hospital.
The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic is now 1,664,829, and the victims are 58,038. The currently positive are 759,982 (-1,248), and the recovered and discharged 846,809 (+23,474). Some 347 people died of COVID in Lombardy in the last 24 hours.