(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - Coronavirus positive tests have risen to over 4 thousand in the last 24 hours in Italy, according to data from the Ministry of Health, while the victims are still171. However, the number of patients in intensive care and in the ordinary wards continues inexorably; the latter are now less than 8,000.
To be precise, 4,147 cases were registered in one day; yesterday there were 3,937. The dead were 121 instead, 50 fewer.
Tests have decreased compared to the previous day: 243,967 molecular and antigenic swabs carried out, 260,962 were yesterday. The positivity rate is 1.7%, a slight increase compared to 1.5% yesterday (+ 0.2%).
There are 1,206 patients admitted to intensive care, 72 compared to yesterday in the daily balance between entries and exits, while the daily entries were 38 (yesterday there were 39). On the other hand, 7,707 patients were hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards, 411 fewer in the last 24 hours.
In total, the cases since the beginning of the epidemic are 4,205,970, 125,793 amounts. On the other hand, the discharged and healed are 3,826,984, with an increase of 10,808 compared to yesterday, while the currently positive ones fall to 253,193 (-6,836). There are 244,280 people in home isolation (-6,353 compared to yesterday). (HANDLE).