World News | Italy’s COVID-19 transmission rate rises for fourth week in a row

Rome [Italy]July 2 (ANI/Xinhua): Italy’s COVID-19 transmission rate rose for the fourth week in a row, according to a weekly government report released on Friday.

In its weekly surveillance report, the Ministry of Health and its Advanced Institute of Health said the ratio was above 1.0 for the second week in a row, meaning the virus was in an expansion phase.

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The rate for the period from June 7 to June 20 (the most recent coverage) was 1.30, which means that 1.30 of every recovered Italian resident were newly infected. The figure is up from the 1.07 transfer rate reported a week ago.

In the week ended June 30, the infection rate was 763 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, an increase of more than 50% from 504 cases per 100,000 inhabitants the previous week.

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Eight of Italy’s 21 regions and autonomous provinces are considered to be at a high risk level for the coronavirus, while the others are classified as medium 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 country’s highest one-day total since April. The pandemic claimed 72 lives in Italy on Friday, the most in a single day in two weeks. (ANI/Xinhua News Agency)

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