Italy's COVID-19 infections rise again

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Italy's COVID-19 infections rise again

STORY: Italy's COVID-19 infections rise again DATELINE: Aug. 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of the street view in Italy STORYLINE: Italy's coronavirus infection rate is on the rise again, reversing a month of declines to climb by 14.4 percent over the last week. Italy, the first European country to be hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, saw the number of cases rise from mid-June to mid-July and then decline until the last few days -- the latest of a series of infection waves that have hit the country. The latest data from Italy's Ministry of Health showed more than 27,000 new infections Thursday, down from more than 36,000 a day earlier but around triple rates of fewer than 10,000 infections in the days before that. For the week ending on Wednesday, total infections rose by 14.4 percent. Meanwhile, on Thursday the positivity rate -- the percentage of coronavirus tests carried out that were positive -- climbed to 16.3 percent from 15.8 percent.

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