WEB DESK
The number of recoveries from COVID-19 in Italy has exceeded 100,000, according to the latest tally posted by the country’s Civil Protection Department. Recoveries jumped by 4,008 from 99,023 recoveries on Friday, bringing the nationwide total to 103,031.
Meanwhile, the number of active infections fell by 3,119 from Friday’s 87,961 cases to 84,842. Of those tested positive for the coronavirus, 13,834 are hospitalized with symptoms while 1,034 are in intensive care.
The rest 69,974 people, or 82 percent of the positive, are quarantined at home because they are asymptomatic or with mild symptoms. A total of 30,262 cases, the vast majority of current active cases, occurred in the Lombardy region whose capital is Milan, followed by 13,934 infections in its neighboring Piedmont region with Turin as capital.