(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 08 - There are 17,533 positive swabs for alcoronavirus in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
The victims are 620. 140,267 the swabs made (yesterday about 19 thousand less).
The positive rate was 12.5%, down 2.3% from 14.8% yesterday.
The positives yesterday were 18,020, the dead 414. In total since the beginning of the epidemic, the cases are 2,237,890, the victims 77,911.
The patients in intensive care for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Italy are unchanged, in the daily balance between entries and exits.
In total, 2,587 patients are hospitalized in intensive care.
Daily admissions are 187. On the other hand, hospitalized in ordinary wards increase by 22 units, bringing the total to 23,313.
Currently positive are 570,389 (-666 in 24 hours), healed and discharged 1,589,590 (+17,575), in home isolation there are now 544,489 people (-688).
The regions with the highest number of positive swabs in the last 24 hours are: Veneto 3,388, Emilia-Romagna 2,026, Lombardy 1,963, Sicily 1,842, Lazio 1,613, Puglia 1,349.
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