The number of deaths linked to the coronavirus epidemic in Italy increased from 56 to 53 the day before, announced on Friday the civil protection agency, which now counts 34,223 deaths. The official count of new contaminations, which lists only 163 cases against 379 on Thursday, was blurred by a new calculation of previous data made by Campania.
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In northern Italy, 272 infections have been identified in Lombardy, the Italian region most affected by the coronavirus, ahead of Emilia-Romagna, which registers only 33 new cases. With 236,305 confirmed cases of contamination since the virus appeared on Italian territory on February 21, Italy ranks seventh in the world in terms of infections.
The number of people registered as currently carrying the disease fell to 28,997 from 30,637 on Thursday. The number of patients hospitalized in intensive care fell Friday to 227 against 236 the previous day, confirming a downward trend of long duration.
Of those initially infected, 173,085 were declared recovered from 171,338 a day earlier. According to the civil defense agency, 2.784 million people were tested on Thursday, out of a population of around 60 million.
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