Coronavirus infections in Italy are still increasing:
according to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health,
16,079 new cases
have been identified in the last 24 hours
, almost a thousand more than yesterday,
but with about
7,500 fewer swabs
(170,392 against 177,848).
The total number of infected people, including victims and healed, thus rises to 465,726.
The number of victims is also increasing: 136 in one day, while yesterday they were 127, for a total that reached 36,968.
Almost ten thousand people are now hospitalized in the ordinary wards of hospitals due to Covid 19:
the bulletin of the Ministry of Health indicates 9,694, with an increase of 637 in the last 24 hours.
Intensive care is also growing, with 66 more patients than yesterday for a total of 992 while the currently positive ones are 169,302, with an increase of 13,860 in one day.
In home isolation there are 158,616 people, 13,157 more.
Finally, the total of those discharged and recovered rose to 259,456, with an increase of 2,082.
The ratio of positive cases to swabs is again 9.4%
.
It is the same figure from four days ago, the highest figure of this second wave
, "Despite a slight decrease recorded in the last two days, the weekly trend is one of strong growth and the demonstration is that within a week it is almost Also for this parameter we have a doubling time close to seven days ", physicist Giorgio Sestili, founder and one of the curators of the Facebook page" Coronavirus - Scientific data and analysis "told ANSA.