There are

44,853 new cases of Covid

in the last 24 hours, against 45,225 yesterday and above all 37,522 last Thursday.

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

The processed swabs are 222,926 (yesterday 224,969) with a

positivity rate that remains stable at 20.1%

There

are 56 deaths today

(yesterday 43), for a total of 177,356 victims since the beginning of the pandemic.   

Intensive

care units increased by 9 units

(yesterday +16) and are now 180 with 30 admissions per day;

ordinary hospitalizations are 115 more (yesterday +259), for a total of 5,188. 

The region with the highest number of cases is still

Lombardy

with 9,124 infections followed by Veneto (+5,881), Piedmont (+4,659), Emilia Romagna (+3,897) and Lazio (+3,771).   

The total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic rises to

22,692,912

The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are

46.009

(yesterday 27.251) for a total that rises to 22.007.032.   

The

currently positive are 1,216 less

(yesterday +17,929) and drop to 508,524, of which 503,156 in home isolation.

The updated situation in Italy and in the world