Italy has registered a record 37,809
new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry
said on Friday.
That is up from 34,500 new cases on Thursday.
The ministry said 446 COVID-19 sufferers have died in Italy in
the last 24 hours, one more than on Thursday and the highest
number since the first wave of the coronavirus in April.
Italy's COVID-19 death toll is now 40,638.
The nation has registered 862,681 coronavirus cases in total,
including the deceased, the recovered and the currently
positive.
The ministry said a record 234,245 swabs were performed over the
last 24 hours, some 15,000 more than Thursday.
The ratio of the positive cases to the total number of people
tested was 16.14%, almost one percentage point higher than on
Thursday.
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