There are 6,968 Covid test positives identified in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday there were 5,636.
Instead, there are 31 victims in one day, the same increase as yesterday.
There are 230,039 molecular and antigenic swabs for the coronavirus carried out in the last 24 hours in Italy.
Yesterday there were 241,766.
The positivity rate is 3%, up from 2.3% yesterday.
There are 337 patients hospitalized in intensive care for Covid in Italy, 15 more than yesterday in the balance between income and expenses.
The daily admissions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, are 40 (yesterday they were 26).
The hospitalized with symptoms in the ordinary wards are 2,948, an increase of 68 units compared to yesterday.
A Covid cluster in an unvaccinated family in Formia
, in the province of Latina, which also caused a two-year-old child to end up in hospital. The news was anticipated by the newspaper La Repubblica. At the moment the ASL of Latina, which immediately activated contact tracing, records seven positives in the family unit. The most serious is the father of the child, a post office employee of about 40 years, hospitalized in intensive care at the Gemelli polyclinic in Rome. At the Bambino Gesù di Palidoro, on the other hand, the child with his mother is hospitalized. Two uncles and other relatives were also infected. From the checks carried out so far by the ASL it appears that all infected people are not vaccinated. The tracing activity is continuing to trace the contacts made in the last days by family members. At the moment, they would not be positive among the colleagues of the man who works at the post office.