MILAN (Reuters) – Italy reported 202 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday against 142 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 78,313 from 30,810, hitting a fresh record in terms of new cases since the start of the pandemic.
Italy has registered 136,955 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth-highest in the world. The country has reported 5.76 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 – not including those in intensive care – stood at 10,089 on Tuesday, up from 9,723 a day earlier.
There were 119 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 100 on Monday. The total number of intensive care patients increased to 1,145 from a previous 1,126.
Some 1.03 million tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 343,968, the health ministry said.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Flak, editing by Gianluca Semeraro)
