Italy reports 54 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, 5,273 new cases
ROME, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Italy reported 54 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday against 24 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections increased to 5,273 from 3,674 .
Italy has registered 128,510 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth-highest in the world. The country has reported 4.45 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 3,472 on Tuesday, up from 3,334 a day earlier.
There were 49 new admissions to intensive care units, up from 32 on Monday. The total number of intensive care patients rose to 423 from a previous 404.
Some 238,073 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 74,021, the health ministry said. (Reporting by Giulia Segreti, editing by Sabina Suzzi)
