The number of new COVID-19 cases
registered in Italy between February 9 and 15 was down by 32.3%
with respect to the previous week, the GIMBE medical foundation
said on Thursday in its regular monitoring report on the
coronavirus pandemic.
It said it was the third consecutive week that the number of new
cases had fallen here.
It said the fall was down to a 27.8% drop in the number of COVID
tests being done and to "lower circulation of the virus, which
still remains high".
It said the pressure COVID-19 is exerting on Italy's hospitals
had continued to fall too.
It said COVID admissions to ordinary hospital wards were down
14.9% and admissions to intensive care units dropped by 18.7%.
It said the number of COVID-19 deaths registered in the period
in question were down by 16.2% with respect to the previous
week.
The report added that the obligation for all over-50s in Italy
to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, which kicked in on
Tuesday, has not had a major impact, with 5.1 million people in
Italy still unvaccinated.
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