(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 28 - There are 5,696 Covid test positives identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Health Minister. Yesterday there were 4,552. Instead, there are 15 victims in one day, a number that exceeds the threshold of 128 thousand deaths in Italy, while yesterday there were 24.
The number of molecular and antigenic swabs for coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours was 241 yesterday. 890. The positivity rate rises to 2.3%, up from 1.9% yesterday.
Total cases in our country since the beginning of the epidemic thus reach 4,330,739, while the discharged and healed are a total of 4,128,568, with a daily increase of 1,827. The currently positive ones stand at 74,161, with an increase of 3,851 units in the last 24 hours.
There is a slight decrease in patients admitted to intensive care which today are 183, 6 less than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses. The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are instead 1,685, 74 more than yesterday. The number of deaths since the beginning of the emergency is 128,010. (HANDLE).