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February 17, 2021 According to the latest update of the data of the Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours

12,074 new cases

have been registered

, compared to 294,411 swabs carried out.

369 deaths

.

Yesterday there were 10,386 cases with 336 deaths and 274,019 swabs.



The

ratio between new cases and tests

performed rises to

4.1%

, against the previous 3.8%.



The total number of hospitalized in Italy is 20,317 patients, with a decrease of 220 cases compared to yesterday.

Of these, 2,043 in intensive care, with a decrease of 31 units.

There are 368,547 people in home isolation, 4,602 fewer in the last 24 hours.

There are 2,268,253 people discharged and recovered, an increase of 16,519 units.



The total of currently positive in Italy is 388,864 cases, that is 4,822 fewer than the last survey.

There are 369 deaths in the last 24 hours for a total of 94,540 victims of Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in Italy.

The total cases are 2,751,657 (+12,074).

The swabs in the last 24 hours were 294,411, that is 20,392 more than the previous day.



The regions that recorded the highest number of new daily cases are

Lombardy

(+1.764),

Campania

(+1.575),

Emilia-Romagna

(+1.025),

Piedmont

(+959),

Puglia

(+883),

Lazio

(+871) ,

Tuscany

(+773).



Campania

The

Campania

region crisis unit reported that the day's positives are 1,575 (of which 135 cases identified by rapid antigenic tests) of which asymptomatic: 1,388 and symptomatic: 52 out of 20,469 swabs (of which 2,427 antigenic).

The total of positives is 246.592 (of which 3.387 antigenic) out of 2.714.018 swabs (of which 69.674 antigenic).

There are 14 new deaths (8 died in the last 48 hours, 6 previously died but registered yesterday) which bring the total to 4,053.

The healed are 862 and the total number rises to 172,860.

ICU beds available: 656;

occupied: 107. Available hospital beds: 3,160;

employed: 1,301. 



Emilia-Romagna

There are 1,025 cases of coronavirus positivity recorded in Emilia-Romagna compared to 27,947 swabs performed in the last 24 hours.

The percentage of new positives on the number of swabs made since yesterday is 3.6%.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, the total number of cases has thus reached 239,091 units.

There are 31 new deaths.

In total, there have been 10,213 deaths in the region since the beginning of the epidemic.

Meanwhile, the anti-Covid vaccination campaign continues: at 2 pm in Emilia-Romagna a total of 298,601 doses were administered, of which 3,007 today;

out of the total, 128,065 are second doses, ie people who have completed the vaccination cycle.

These are the data released by the Emilia-Romagna Region, ascertained at 12 noon today on the basis of institutional requests, relating to the progress of the epidemic in the region. 



Lazio

In Lazio there are 36,607 cases currently positive for Covid-19, of which 2,044 hospitalized, 239 in intensive care and 34,324 in home isolation.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, a total of 179,630 healed, 5,593 deaths and the total number of cases examined is 221,830, according to the updated bulletin of the Lazio Region.



Puglia

In Puglia, out of 10,374 tests for Covid-19 infection, 883 positive cases were recorded: 342 in the province of Bari, 80 in the province of Brindisi, 89 in the BAT province, 98 in the province of Foggia, 72 in the province Lecce, 197 in the province of Taranto, 3 residents outside the region, 2 cases of unknown province of residence.

17 deaths were recorded: 7 in the province of Bari, 1 in the province of BAT, 2 in the province of Foggia, 4 in the province of Lecce, 2 in the province of Taranto, 1 resident outside the region.

Since the start of the emergency 1,458,849 tests have been carried out;

95,372 are the patients recovered;

38,034 are currently positive cases. 



Veneto The

toll of the Coronavirus pandemic in

Veneto

is 492 new positives (yesterday 638) and 70 victims (yesterday 42) in 24 hours.

This was reported in the bulletin of Azienda Zero this morning, 8 am. The infected people since March have risen to 322,846 and the total victims are 9,621.

The number of hospitalized patients in non-critical areas (-18) and in intensive care (-5) is decreasing, where there are currently 97 people.