Covid-19: Italy will distribute 2.5 million tests over the next week

According to the member of the Italian executive responsible for coordinating the response to the pandemic, Domenico Arcuri, cited by the agency France-Presse (AFP), these “2.5 million tests will be distributed by the regions, next week”. According to AFP, so far, just under a million tests have been carried out in Italy since the start of the pandemic. Italy has almost 20 a thousand dead and about 100 a thousand confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus.

Italian health authorities intend to start identifying people who have been infected or are infected, but with mild or even asymptomatic symptoms, to control the spread of the disease covid - 19 . Domenico Arcuri added that an application for ‘smartphone’ is also being developed that will help to track people infected with the new coronavirus. Among the regions in northern Italy, the most affected by the pandemic, Veneto was the one that carried out the most tests, with almost 200 thousand.

The head of the Italian Government added that “this dramatic emergency will only be left behind” when “a vaccine is effectively discovered” and while the vaccine does not arrive “there is an antidote”: “We and our behavior ”. The new coronavirus, responsible for the covid pandemic - 19 , already caused more than 103 a thousand deaths and infected more than 1.7 million people in 193 countries and territories. Of the cases of infection, more than 341 thousand are considered cured.

After appearing in China in December, the outbreak spread throughout the world, which led the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic situation.

The number of deaths in Italy due to covid - 19 increased today to 19. 468, with more 619 in the last 24 hours, and returned to being the country in the world with more deaths due to the pandemic, surpassing the number of deaths in the United States of America. According to a statement released by the Italian Civil Protection, quoted by the Spanish agency Efe, the total number of people infected by SARS-CoV-2 in Italy is now 152. 271, with 4 more confirmed. 694 people infected on the last day. The European continent, with over 870 thousand infected and over 71 thousand dead, is what registers the largest number of cases.