(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Italy's COVID-19 transmission rate has increased for the fourth
consecutive week, according to a weekly government report, Trend reports citing
Xinhua .
The rate has been above 1.0 for the second consecutive week,
which means the virus is in a phase of expansion, the Ministry of
Health and its High Institute of Health said in its weekly
monitoring report.
The rate for the period between June 7 and June 20, the most
recent period covered, was 1.30, meaning that for each Italian
resident who recovered, 1.30 were newly infected. That figure is up
from a transmission rate of 1.07 in the report a week ago.
For the week ending June 30, the infection rate was 763 cases
for every 100,000 inhabitants, more than a 50 percent increase from
504 per 100,000 residents in the previous week.
Eight of Italy's 21 regions and autonomous provinces were
considered at high coronavirus risk levels, with the others
classified as moderate risk.
On Friday, the health ministry reported more than 86,000 new
COVID-19 cases, up from nearly 84,000 a day earlier and the highest
one-day total in the country since April. The pandemic claimed 72
lives in Italy on Friday, the highest one-day total in two
weeks.
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