The positivity rate also rose, with 18.1 percent positive results among the last 193,000 samples analyzed, a significant jump from the 11.8 calculated a week ago, specialists warned.
However, the number of deaths has declined over the same period, as the 45 deaths in the last day represent a 25 percent drop compared to the 60 deaths reported earlier on Saturday, the sources said.
In terms of ICU hospitalizations, the comparison from the last report’s data shows no change with 193 patients, the same number as seven days ago.
The number of people infected in home isolation has been reduced, falling from 616,697 a week ago to 556,0015 today; However, admissions to regular rooms increased by 6.3 percent, outpacing hospital admissions by 255 from 4,076 and now totaling 4,331.
Since the start of the pandemic, infections in Italy have reached 17,844,905 while the total death toll is 167,703, but the country is moving towards normalization.
As part of this process, the use of a mask is no longer mandatory in closed places since June 15, although it remains in health facilities and on public transport.
The Secretary of State for Health, Andrea Costa, recently announced that in the coming weeks, domestic isolation could also be ended for those who were positive “in view of a necessary coexistence” with the virus.
However, some experts disagree and warn to exercise caution and maintain the last standard of health to prevent the virus from spreading.
Experts claim that in order to combat the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic, it is also important to continue the vaccination campaign, as part of which 138 million 68 thousand 405 doses have been administered so far.
In this European country of almost 60 million inhabitants, 48 million 645 thousand 583 people received two vaccines of the first cycle or single dose, while 39 million 699 thousand 974 received the third dose and one million 395 thousand 68 children also vaccinated, according to the latest reports.
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