ROME: The coronavirus pandemic in Italy continued to improve gradually while strategies for combating the virus' spread were under review as a new government took the reins of power in the country.
According to the Data by the health ministry released on Thursday, The country's recovery rate continued to improve, totalling 17,771 on Thursday and approaching 2.3 million since the start of the pandemic. The daily new infections surpassed 15,000 once so far this month -- just barely, totalling 15,146 on February 11 -- a benchmark that was topped over 10 times in January.
The Data showed that the country recorded 13,762 new infections and 347 deaths in 24 hours. Both were in line with a broad trend seeing both indicators fall over recent weeks, the Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.
Even the previously stubborn figure of patients in intensive-care units has generally drifted lower in recent weeks, totalling 2,045 on Thursday, two more than a day earlier but down by 29 compared to Tuesday and 98 fewer than ten days earlier.
Nino Cartabellotta, President of the GIMBE health foundation, said hospitals remained at risk of being overrun by even small regional increases in the infection rate, calling on the people to be on guard against localized outbreaks, especially those tied to variants of the virus shown to be more transmissible.
On Thursday, the Italian media reported that newly-installed Prime Minister Mario Draghi plans to change the country's vaccine rollout strategy by using more public spaces as vaccination sites and employing the civil protection officials and even the armed forces to assure things move quickly.
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