(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 23 - There are 3,995 coronavirus test positives in Italy in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday there were 4,717. On the other hand, 72 victims in one day - the lowest level of 2021 -, while yesterday there were 125, but with 24 recalculations of Campania for the last few months. It is the second time in May that the deaths in one day stop below 100.
The level of cases is also low, but the molecular and antigenic swabs carried out were just 179,391, compared to 286,603 yesterday. Despite this, the positivity rate is 2.2%, up from 1.6% yesterday (+ 0.6%).
The decline in the number of patients in intensive care and in the Covid wards continues unabated. In intensive care there are 1,410 people, down 20 compared to yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits, while the daily entries were 48 (yesterday 64). On the other hand, 9,161 patients with symptoms were hospitalized, 327 fewer in the last 24 hours. In total, the cases since the beginning of the epidemic are 4,192,183, 125,225 amounts. The discharged and healed are 3,785,866 (+ 6,573 compared to yesterday), the currently positive 281,092 (-2,652). There are 270,521 people in home isolation (-2,305 compared to yesterday). (HANDLE).