(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 19 - 24,691 new infections from Covid have been registered in the last 24 hours, according to data from the Health Minister.
Yesterday the infected were 27,296.
The victims are 124, down from 147 yesterday.
The swabs carried out are 158,905.
The rate is 15.5%, down from yesterday when it was 16.3%.
On the other hand, 260 patients are hospitalized in intensive care (-8), while daily admissions are 26.
There are 6,782 hospitalized in ordinary wards, 243 fewer in the last 24 hours.
The current positives are 799,423, 18,575 less than yesterday.
Discharged and healed are 20,632,612 (+43,140) while the total number of cases since the beginning of the pandemic is 21,606,606 and that of deaths is 174,571.
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