Italy has registered 127,884 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth-highest in the world. The country has reported 4.29 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 1,194 on Tuesday, up from 1,188 a day earlier.
There were 11 new admissions to intensive care units against 16 on Monday. The total number of intensive care patients rose to 165 from a previous 162.
Some 218,705 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 89,089, the health ministry said.
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