Italy has registered 125,153 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the seventh-highest in the world. The country has reported 4.188 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 9,488 on Saturday, down from 9,925 a day earlier.
There were 64 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 51 on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 1,430 from a previous 1,469.
Some 286,603 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 269,744, the health ministry said.
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