(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 04 - In Italy the threshold of 90 thousand official victims for Covid-19 has been exceeded.
With 421 deaths in the last 24 hours (Emilia Romagna has removed a victim from yesterday's figure), according to the Ministry of Health, the total has reached 90,241.
Positive tests still rise: in the last 24 hours there were 13,659, yesterday there were 13,189 (and 476 victims).
A total of 270,142 tests (molecular and antigenic swabs) were carried out in the last 24 hours (yesterday they were 279,307, so almost 9,000 more), with a positivity rate that rose to 5.05% (yesterday it was 4.7 %, up by 0.3%).
Intensive care patients are increasing and those hospitalized in ordinary wards are decreasing: there are 2,151 people in intensive care in Italy, an increase of 6 units compared to yesterday, in the balance between entrances and exits;
daily admissions are 147. On the
other hand, hospitalized patients with symptoms are 19,743, so 328 less than yesterday.
In total since the beginning of the epidemic, the cases of coronavirus in Italy are 2,597,446.
Currently positive are 430,277 (-4,445 compared to yesterday), healed and discharged 2,076,928 (+17,680), in home isolation there are 408,383 people (-4,123).
The regions with the highest number of coronavirus test positives in the last 24, according to the Ministry of Health, are: Lombardy 1,746, Campania 1,544, Emilia Romagna 1,192.
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