The deaths in Italy infected by Covid have exceeded 170 thousand.
The figure emerges from the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, which highlights 31,205 new infections and 112 victims in the last 24 hours.
The total number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic thus rises to 170,037.
The rate is at 23%, substantially stable (yesterday 22.8%) and 135,642 swabs were performed in all, including antigenic and molecular.
On the other hand, 417 patients are hospitalized in intensive care, 14 more than yesterday.
Daily admissions are 41. There are 10,848 people admitted to ordinary wards, compared to 272 more than yesterday.
The new wave of Covid pushed by Omicron's BA.5 sub-variant has passed its peak in Italy, with cases falling for five consecutive days.
This was revealed by the analyzes of the physicist Giorgio Sestili, founder of the Facebook page 'Scientific data and analysis'.
"The peak seems to have been exceeded - Sestili told ANSA - and the cases show a reduction of 14% in one week".
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