Italy reports 74 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, 7,698 new cases
MILAN, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Italy reported 74 coronavirus-related deaths on Tuesday against 44 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections rose to 7,698 from 5,144.
Italy has registered 132,893 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February last year, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth-highest in the world. The country has reported 4.9 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 3,970 on Tuesday, up from 3,808 a day earlier.
There were 41 new admissions to intensive care units, the same number as the previous day. The total number of intensive care patients increased to 481 from a previous 475.
Some 684,710 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 248,825, the health ministry said. (Reporting by Cristina Carlevaro, editing by Sabina Suzzi)
