Italy registered 23,730 new COVID-19
cases in the March 10-16 period, down 1.1% on the 23,988
recorded the previous week, the health ministry said on Friday.
It said there were 212 COVID-linked deaths in this period, a
fall of 1.9% on the 216 registered the previous week.
The ministry said 452,747 COVID tests had been done in Italy
over the last week, with a positivity rate of 5.2%, up 0.2 of a
point on 5% the previous week.
Italy's COVID-19 incidence for the March 6-12 period was 38
cases for every 100,000 inhabitants, down from 41 the previous
week, the weekly coronavirus monitoring report of the health
ministry and the Higher Health Institute (ISS) said on Friday.
The report said the Rt transmission number had dropped from 0.97
to 0.94.
An Rt above 1 indicates that the virus is in a phase of
expansion.
It said the proportion of Italy's intensive-care beds occupied
by COVID patients was steady at 1%.
The report said 4.3% of ordinary-ward hospital beds were taken
up by coronavirus sufferers on March 16, down from 4.7% on March
9.
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