It is still growing but the climb of the epidemic curve in Italy becomes less steep.

There are 47,763 new cases of Covid

in the last 24 hours,

against 65,925 yesterday and above all 45,225 last Wednesday

.

A weekly increase of about 5% when only last week there were increases in cases of between 20 and 30%.

The processed swabs are 244,746 (yesterday 333,204)

with a

positivity rate that falls from 19.8% to 19.5%

.

There

are 69 deaths today (yesterday 80)

, for a total of 177,719 victims since the beginning of the pandemic. 

Intensive care units increased by 4 units (yesterday +8) and are now 228 with 40 admissions of the day;

ordinary hospitalizations are 225 more (yesterday +272), for a total of 6,484. 

The discharged / healed in the last 24 hours are 35,153 (yesterday 48,345) for a total that rises to 22,233,326.

The currently positive ones are 12,532 more (yesterday +17,492) and rise to 533,451, of which 526,739 in home isolation.

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

The region with the highest number of cases today is still Lombardy with 9,126 infections, followed by Piedmont (+5,170), Emilia Romagna (+4,853), Lazio (+3,670) and Tuscany (+2,716).

The total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 22,944,496.

The updated situation in Italy and in the world