(ANSA) - ROME, 15 JAN - There are 16,146 positive swabs for alcoronavirus in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
There are 477 victims. Both figures are down compared to yesterday, when 522 victims and 17,246 new cases were registered.
With the inclusion of antigen tests in the overall swab calculation - today for the first time in the new bulletin of the Ministry of Health - the incidence of positives collapses.
In all, 273,506 swabs carried out in Italy in the last 24 hours are reported (156,647 molecular and 116,859 antigenic).
The positivity rate is 5.9%, a sharp decline compared to 10.7% yesterday, when, however, the percentage of positives was calculated only on molecular tests, which were 160,585.
If we calculated the incidence on molecular only, the rate would be stable today at 10.3%.
2,522 patients are hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, 35 fewer than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses.
In the ordinary wards there are instead 22,841 hospitalized, with a decrease compared to Thursday of 269. The currently positive are 558,068, down in the last 24 hours of 3,312, while since the beginning of the emergency there are 1,713,030 people healed, with an increase of 18,979 in one day.
Meanwhile, in Italy the threshold of one million divaccinated has been exceeded: "We are the first in the EU", said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, while the Commissioner for the emergency Domenico Arcuri spoke of a "great result" but remembering that it is "only the beginning ".
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