MILAN: Italy reported 53,662 COVID-19 related cases on Friday , against 57,890 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 314 from 320.
Italy has registered 152,596 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 12.4 million cases to date. Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 13,948 on Friday, down from 14,562 a day earlier.
There were 52 new admissions to intensive care units, down from 71 on Thursday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 987 from a previous 1,037. Some 510,283 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 538,131, the health ministry said.