Coronavirus
Italy reports 6,902 new COVID-19 cases, 22 virus-related deaths
Italy reported 22 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, compared with 24 the day before, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 6,902 from 6,599.
Italy has registered a total of 128,209 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth-highest in the world.
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The country has reported 4.39 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 2,533 on Saturday, up from 2,449 a day earlier, the health ministry said.
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There were 29 new admissions to intensive care, down from 32 on Friday. The total of intensive care patients increased to 288 from 277.
Some 293,863 tests for COVID-19 were carried out over the past 24 hours, compared with a previous 244,657, the health ministry said.
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