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Italy reported seven coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday compared to five the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of new infections fell to 4,743 from 5,140 on Saturday.
Italy has recorded 127,949 COVID-19-related deaths since the outbreak of its outbreak in February last year, the second-highest death toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth in the world. The country has reported more than 4.3 million cases to date.
Hospital patients with COVID-19 – not counting those in intensive care – stood at 1,392 on Sunday, up from 1,340 a day earlier. There were 16 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 21 on Saturday. The total number of intensive care patients has increased to 178 from 172 previously.
Some 176,653 COVID-19 tests were performed in the past day, up from 258,929 previously, the health ministry said.
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