(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 20 - Positive and casualties are declining due to a slight increase in tests in the last 24 hours in Italy.
There are 14,931 positive tests for coronavirus, according to data from the Ministry of Health (yesterday they were 15,479).
Victims were instead 251 (yesterday 353).
Were 306,078 molecular and antigenic carried out (yesterday they were 297,128, about 9 thousand less).
The positive rate is 4.8%, yesterday it was 5.2% (so there is a drop of 0.4% in 24 hours).
2,063 people are hospitalized in intensive care, with a 4-unit increase in the daily balance between entries and exits.
There were 137 daily admissions to resuscitation. In ordinary wards, 17,725 people are now hospitalized, down 106 units compared to yesterday.
The sick are back on the rise, the currently positive ones from the tables of the Ministry of Health: in 24 hours they increased by 2,175 units, bringing the total to 384,623.
The number of people in home isolation is also increasing: they are 364,835 (+2,277).
The discharged and healed are 2,315,687 (+12,488 compared to yesterday).
The total cases since the beginning of the epidemic in Italy are now 2,795,796, the victims 95,486.
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