After the sharp rises of last week, the epidemic curve is more stable today in Italy:
there are 33,876 new cases of Covid
in the last 24 hours,
against 34,479 yesterday.
But on a weekly level, the cases today
are still almost double that of last Saturday (18,797)
.
The swabs processed are 180,241
(yesterday 183,059) with a
positivity rate that remains at 18.8%.
Today's deaths are 38
like yesterday, for a total of 177,130 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Intensive care increased by one unit (yesterday -5) and are now 138 with 14 admissions a day;
ordinary hospitalizations are 80 more (yesterday +256), for a total of 4,181.
The total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 22,500,346.
The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 18,825 (yesterday 68,638) for a total that rises to 21,867,067.
The currently positive
are 14,205 more (yesterday -34.201) and
reach 456,149
, of which 451,830 in home isolation.
This is what emerges from the daily bulletin of the Ministry of Health.
The region with the highest number of cases is still Lombardy with 5,991 infections, followed by Veneto (+4.804), Piedmont (+3.249), Emilia Romagna (2.876) and Campania (+2.810).
The updated situation in Italy and in the world