(ANSA) - PERUGIA, OCT 27 - Umbria has now passed the number
of COVID infections it had in the first wave of the virus
emergency, Governor Donatella Tesei told the legislative
assembly on Tuesday.
In the current second phase of the pandemic, she said, "we have
already surpassed the contagions of the first phase" in the
spring.
"The epidemic has a daily rate never before seen, as is the rate
of spread".
She said it was "a completely different wave to phase 1".
The president told the regional assembly that "it is a massive
and widespread contagion, without particular hotbeds". (ANSA).
COVID: Umbria passes 1st-phase infections
Never before seen pace of spread says governor