The death toll in Italy related to COVID-19 has climbed by 78 over the last 24 hours, but 23 of those were from March and April, with 346 new positive cases.
The pandemic curve continues to fall in the Peninsula, as the country has moved into Phase Three of the response.
There were another 78 deaths registered, but 23 of those had not been counted from March and April because they weren’t at the time tested for coronavirus.
The death toll now stands at 34,301 since the first case on February 20.
The death toll in Italy related to COVID-19 has climbed by 78 over the last 24 hours, but 23 of those were from March and April, with 346 new positive cases.
The pandemic curve continues to fall in the Peninsula, as the country has moved into Phase Three of the response.
There were another 78 deaths registered, but 23 of those had not been counted from March and April because they weren’t at the time tested for coronavirus.
The death toll now stands at 34,301 since the first case on February 20.
As usual, Lombardy is the hotbed of the virus, with 23 deaths and 210 new positive cases over the last 24 hours.
Throughout the country, there were 346 new positive tests out of 49,750 swabs.
The overall number of current active cases fell by 1,512 to 27,485.
There are now 220 patients in intensive care (-7), 3,747 hospitalised in need of treatment (-146) and 23,518 self-isolating at home with only minor symptoms (-1,359).
The good news is that only Lombardy (210), Piedmont (40), Emilia-Romagna (28) and Lazio (25, of which 23 were delayed) had 15 or more new positive tests since yesterday, with seven regions registering zero new patients.