The Rt index surpassed 1 nationwide from 0.91 to 1.02 in just four days, a speed not seen since October.
Physicist Roberto Battiston, of the University of Trento, told ANSA, whose calculations are based on data from the Civil Protection by monitoring the pandemic daily with results similar to those of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità and the 'Bruno Kessler' Foundation, based on a flow of more detailed but not publicly available data '.