(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 3 - Italy registered a record 993 deaths
from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest daily toll in
the pandemic, t health ministry said Thursday.
There have been 23,225 new COVID cases in Italy in the last 24
hours, the ministry said.
This compares with 20,709 new cases and 684 more dead Wednesday.
The ratio of positives to swabs was steady Thursday at 10.2%.
There were 19 fewer intensive care cases, and 682 fewer
admissions to hospital.
The total number of cases since the start of the pandemic is now
1,664,829, and the victims are 58,038.
The currently positive are 759,982 (-1,248), and the recovered
and discharged 846,809 (+23,474).
Some 347 people died of COVID in Lombardy in the last 24 hours.
Premier Giuseppe Conte's government is set to ban travel at
Christmas in a bid to stop the festive season feeding a third
wave of COVID-19 contagion. (ANSA).