MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported 49,040 COVID-19 related cases on Wednesday, against 60,029 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 252 from 322.
Italy has registered 153,764 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth highest in the world. The country has reported 12.6 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 – not including those in intensive care – stood at 12,527 on Wednesday, down from 13,076 a day earlier.
There were 81 new admissions to intensive care units, down from 82 on Tuesday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 886 from a previous 896.
Some 479,447 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 603,639, the health ministry said.
(Reporting by Gianluca Semeraro, editing by Francesca Piscioneri)
