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04 September 2021

The updated situation in Italy and in the world



The epidemic curve in Italy is still slowly decreasing. The new cases in the 24 hours are 6,157, against the 6,735 of yesterday but above all the 6,860 of last Saturday, confirming that the weekly trend remains with the minus sign as it has been for five days.



There are 331,350 swabs, 35 thousand more than yesterday, so much so that the positivity rate drops from 2.27% to 1.85%.



The deaths in 24 hours are 56 (yesterday 58), for a total of 129,466 victims since the beginning of the epidemic. 13 more (yesterday +1) with 53 entries of the day (12 of which in Sicily alone), and there are 569 in total.



This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.



Even today Sicily is the region with the highest number of new infections, followed by Lombardy 647, Emilia Romagna 545, Tuscany 491, Campania 455, Piedmont 286.