Italy reports 39,963 coronavirus cases on Saturday, 173 deaths

March 05, 2022 / 9:20 PM

Medical staff members walk in a corridor at the COVID-19 intensive care unit of Cremona hospital, in Cremona, northern Italy, on January 11, 2022.

Sharjah 24 – Reuters: Italy reported 39,963 COVID-19 related cases on Saturday, against 38,095 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 173 from 210.

Italy has registered 155,782 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth highest in the world. The country has reported 12.99 million cases to date.

Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 8,974 on Saturday, down from 9,297 a day earlier.

There were 59 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 31on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 609 from a previous 625.

Some 381,484 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 388,836, the health ministry said.