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The latest update from the Italian MOH adds another 39 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3 additional deaths since this morning's update.
Of growing concern, Italy - like Iran - is reporting a higher percentage of deaths that we've seen from many other places (at least, outside of Hubei Province, China).
A plausible explanation is these countries are prioritizing the testing of the sickest patients first, which would skew the mortality rate, but it would also suggest a great many more cases are going unidentified in those countries.
Fatal outcomes are usually lagging indicators that often don't occur until 1 to 2 weeks after hospitalization. So we'll have to watch to see if these trends continue.
Covid-19, the cases in Italy at 18 on 25 February
322 people are infected with the new Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus in Italy. Of these 10 people died and 1 person recovered.
These are the official figures communicated today at the 18:00 conference by the Commissioner for the emergency of civil protection, Angelo Borrelli.
114 patients are hospitalized with symptoms, 35 are in intensive care, while 162 are in home isolation.
To date, over 8,600 swabs have been carried out on the population.
In the individual Regions the number of infected people is as follows:
- Lombardy Region: 240
- Veneto Region: 43
- Emilia Romagna Region: 26
- Piedmont Region: 3
- Lazio: 3 (the 2 Chinese tourists and t
- he resigned researcher)
- Tuscany: 2
- Sicily: 3
- Liguria: 1
- Autonomous Province of Bolzano: 1
