New COVID-19 cases and deaths down says GIMBE

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 10 - Italy registered 180,517 new COVID-19 cases in the October 26 -November 1 period, a drop of 23.5% on the 236,023 recorded the previous week, the GIMBE medical foundation said in its weekly coronavirus monitoring report on Thursday.
    It said COVID-related deaths had dropped by 4.1% to 536 from 559 last week.
    The number of people in hospital with the coronavirus fell by 6.3% from 7,106 to 6,658.
    The number of COVID patients in intensive care was stable at 232.
    The foundation said 12.8 million people in Italy eligible for a fourth doses of a COVID vaccine still had not had one, while only 4.5 million have. (ANSA).