ROME, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Italy reported 143,898 COVID-19 related cases on Friday, against 155,697 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of deaths fell to 378 from 389.
Italy has registered 145,537 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the ninth highest in the world. The country has reported 10.68 million cases to date.
Patients in hospital with COVID-19 - not including those in intensive care - stood at 19,796 on Friday, down from 19,853 a day earlier.
There were 126 new admissions to intensive care units, edging up from 125 on Thursday. The total number of intensive care patients fell to 1,630 from a previous 1,645.
Some 1.05 million tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 1 million, the health ministry said. (Reporting by Giulia Segreti, editing by Claudia Cristoferi)
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