FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers register people at a coronavirus disease drive in test centre at Rome's San Giovanni hospital in Rome, Italy, August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Remo CasilliROME: Italy reported 845 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Thursday , marking the highest daily increase since May, when the government eased its rigid lockdown measures.
Despite the rise in infections, daily death tallies remain low and are often in single figures. Thursday saw six fatalities compared to seven on Wednesday, health ministry data showed. Italian cases are still mainly concentrated in the northern regions at the epicentre of the outbreak discovered in late February, with Lombardy and Veneto both above 150 on Thursday.Lazio, around Rome, registered 115 cases of which 73 per cent were due to people returning from other Italian regions or from abroad, the regional government said.
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