The COVID-19 pandemic steadily continues to calm in Italy, with 55 deaths and 318 new positive tests over the last 24 hours, but all except two regions registered under 20 new cases.
For the second day running, the death toll stood at 55, the lowest figure since March 6, before the lockdown began.
The total deaths in the country since February 20 related to COVID-19 now stands at 33,530.
There was an uptick in the number of new positive tests, 318, out of 52,159 swabs, an average of 0.61 per cent.
The COVID-19 pandemic steadily continues to calm in Italy, with 55 deaths and 318 new positive tests over the last 24 hours, but all except two regions registered under 20 new cases.
For the second day running, the death toll stood at 55, the lowest figure since March 6, before the lockdown began.
The total deaths in the country since February 20 related to COVID-19 now stands at 33,530.
There was an uptick in the number of new positive tests, 318, out of 52,159 swabs, an average of 0.61 per cent.
The overall current active cases fell by 1,474 to 39,893.
That is because there are 408 patients in intensive care (-16), 5,916 in hospital with symptoms (-183) and 33,569 self-isolating at home with no or only minor symptoms (-1,275).
Lombardy remains by far the statistical outlier, although even their tally of deaths over the last 24 hours was just 12, taking their total since the crisis began to 16,143.
Of the 318 new positive tests, 187 were in the Lombardy region, but one left intensive care, 64 were released from hospital and 761 given the all-clear after self-isolating.
Lombardy currently has 20,255 people suffering from coronavirus, a fall of 606 from yesterday.
All except two regions (Lombardy 187 and Piedmont 57) had under 20 new positive cases over the last 24 hours, with nine registering zero new cases (Puglia, Trento, Bolzano, Umbria, Sardinia, Valle d’Aosta, Calabria, Molise and Basilicata).