On the day before the coronaviruses disease COVID 19 health passes, known as Green Passes, become mandatory on public transport in Rome, Italy, December 5, 2021, people wearing protective face masks walk past a statue in Capitoline Square Piazza del Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill. MILAN, December 5, Italy reported 43 coronaviruses deaths on Sunday compared to 75 the day before, the health ministry said. The daily tally of new reported infections fell to 15,021 from 16,632.
Italy has registered 134,195 deaths linked to COVID 19 since its outbreak began in February last year, the second-highest death in Europe after Britain and the ninth-highest in the world.
Patients in hospital with COVID 19 -- not including those in intensive care -- stood at 5,597 on Sunday, up from 5,428 a day earlier in the day.
There were 45 new admissions to intensive care units, down from 59 on Saturday. The total number of intensive care patients increased to 736 from a previous 732.
The health ministry said that some 525,108 tests for COVID 19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 636,592.