There have been 69,278 new cases of
COVID-19 in Italy in the last 24 hours, and 150 more victims of
the virus, the health ministry said Wednesday.
That compares with 88,173 new cases and 194 more victims
Tuesday.
The case tally since the star of the pandemic is now over 15
million, at 15,035,943, or one in four Italians.
The currently positive are 1,274,286, up 102 on Tuesday.
The recovered and discharged are 13,601,404, up 69,837 on
Tuesday.
The death toll is 160,253.
Some 461,448 more tests have been done, compared to 588,576
Tuesday.
The positivity rate is up from 14.98% to 15.01%.
Intensive care cases are down five to 466, and hospital
admissions down 82 to 10,164.
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