Italy reported 261 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday against 459 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new infections increased by 10,407 from 19,037 the day before, taking the total number of cases since Italy's epidemic began to 2,010,037. Italy on Thursday became the eighth country in the world to exceed 2 million officially recorded cases. The number of swab tests carried out in the past day was 81,285 from a previous 152,334, the health ministry said. The current number of intensive care patients decreased by 2 to 2,582, reflecting those who died or were discharged after recovery.

Source: Mint December 26, 2020 17:39 UTC