Covid Italia, the latest bulletin

39,963 coronavirus infections in Italy in 24 hours, Saturday 5 March, and 173 deaths according to the data and numbers of the Civil Protection bulletin and the Ministry of Health. The data from the Ministry of Health recorded 381,484 swabs, for a positive rate of 10.5%. There are 8,974 hospitalized with symptoms, 609 patients currently in intensive care. Currently positive people are 1,018,831, down from 4,956 yesterday. In the last 24 hours there have been 46,147 healed, bringing the total to 11,815,610 since the beginning of the pandemic.