New record for infections in the last 24 hours in Italy.
The positives are 24,991 (yesterday they were 21,994)
.
The dead are 205 (yesterday they were 221), according to data from the Ministry of Health.
New leap of patients in intensive care.
There are 125 more in the last 24 hours
(yesterday the increase was similar, +127), for a total of 1,536 people in intensive care.
In the ordinary wards there are now 14,981 patients, an increase of 1,026.
The current positives reached 276,457, 21,367 more than yesterday.
Of these, 259,940 are people in home isolation.
It is an absolute record of tampons made in 24 hours in Italy
: according to the data of the Ministry of Health there were 198,952, over 24,000 more than yesterday.
The ratio between swabs carried out and new coronavirus positives found was stable at 12.5%
.
In Italy - according to the data -
there are currently more positives than cured of the covid
: the positives (including those hospitalized with symptoms, intensive care and the sick in home isolation), in fact, are 276,457 against the 275,404,000 healed since the beginning of the pandemic .
The figure of the currently positives has increased a lot in the last few days: only on 20 October they were 142,739 compared to 255,005 healed.
On August 25, for example, the positives were 19,714 compared to 206,015 healed.
There are 7,558 new coronavirus cases registered in the last 24 hours in Lombardy
, the highest figure ever for the region.
Piedmont follows with over 2,800 cases, Campania with 2,427 and Veneto with 2,123 newly infected.
Lazio records 1,963.
The region with the least increase is Molise with 19 cases.
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We had to make a difficult decision, that of suspending face-to-face teaching in all schools of all levels
": this was announced by the president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, on Sky Tg24 during the broadcast "The numbers of the Pandemia ".
"In primary schools we have very heavy numbers, infant schools are excluded from the provision, where attendance is not compulsory", he added.
"We have verified - he concluded - that the increase in infections coincided with the reopening of schools".
