The Rt index remained above 1.0 for the second week in a row, indicating that the virus is still spreading.
The active reproduction number of SARS-CoV-2 in Italy has increased for the fourth week in a row, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
This index – Rt – remained above 1.0 for the second week in a row, indicating that the virus is still spreading.
For the period from June 7 to June 20, the most recent one examined in the report, the active reproduction number was 1.3, meaning that for each recovery there were an average of 1.3 infections. Just last week, Rt was at 1.07.
Moreover, in the week ending June 30, the incidence rate was 763 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, in other words, it increased by more than 50% from the 504 cases per 100,000 inhabitants of the previous week.
Yesterday Friday, the Ministry of Health announced that in the previous 24 hours, 86,334 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed and 72 patients succumbed to complications of COVID-19, the highest number in the past two weeks.
The so-called active cases of the virus in the peninsula are now approaching one million (they are 929,006).
The death toll of the new coronavirus pandemic in Italy has reached 168,425 deaths out of a total of 18.6 million infections. It is the second heaviest in Europe, after Britain, and the eighth heaviest in the world.
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