Italy registered 70,520 COVID-19 linked complaints on Saturday, versus 73,212 the day before, the health ministry said, but the daily number of fatalities reduced to 143 from 2022.

Italy has documented 162,609 fatalities due to COVID-19 since its outbreak surfaced in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth worst in the world. The nation has recorded 16.1 million cases to far.

Patients in hospital with COVID-19 — not counting those in critical care — were at 9,914 on Saturday, down from 10,076 a day earlier.

There were 43 new admissions to critical care units, dropping from 46 on Friday. The overall number of critical care patients remained at 409, creeping down from a prior 411.

Some 421,533 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the last day, compared with a previous 437,193, the health ministry stated.

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