The latest official weekly bulletin on the situation of the pandemic in this European nation also reports that deaths increased in relation to the previous seven days, when there were 279 deaths, although new infections decreased compared to the almost 31,000 cases that were registered. in that previous period.
In that last week, 536,080 tests were carried out to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the positivity rate was 5.3 percent, slightly lower than the 5.7 percentage points reported in the report. of February 10.
The total number of people who contracted this disease since the start of the pandemic, at the end of January 2020, now amounts to 25 million 572 thousand 919, a figure equivalent to almost half of the population of this country, which has about 60 million of inhabitants, while there are already 187 thousand 850 deaths.
According to a recent study published by the World Health Organization, between January 16 and February 12 of this year Italy registered 1,393 deaths from Covid-19, which places it as the second country in Europe with the highest number of deaths during that stage, preceded only by the United Kingdom, with 2,269 deaths.
2.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were registered on Italian territory in that period of just four weeks, a number only lower on this continent than that reported by British health institutions, of 3.3 for the same number of people.
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