(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 10 - There are still 22,409 coronavirus positives in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health, almost 3,000 more than yesterday, when there were 19,749.
The victims are 332, while yesterday there were 376.
361,040 molecular and antigenic swabs were carried out, while yesterday the tests were 345,336.
The positive rate (positive / test ratio) today is 6.2%, yesterday it was 5.7%, so today it is up by 0.5%.
There are 253 admissions to intensive care for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the second highest daily figure since this number was disclosed, at the beginning of last December.
The balance between entries and exits in intensive care is 71 more patients.
In total there are now 2,827 people in intensive care.
In the ordinary wards (pneumatology and infectious diseases), patients increased by 489 compared to yesterday, bringing the total to 22,882.
The total cases since the beginning of the epidemic are 3,123,368, the deaths 100,811.
The currently positive are 487,074 (+8,191 compared to yesterday), the discharged and healed 2,535,483 (+13,752), in home isolation there are now 461,365 people (+7,631).
(HANDLE).