<span style="color: #222222;">Italy Reports 70,520 Coronavirus Cases Today, 143 deaths against 73,212 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily number of deaths fell to 143 from 202.<br />'' <br />'' Italy has registered 162,609 deaths linked to COVID-19 since its outbreak emerged in February 2020, the second-highest toll in Europe after Britain and the eighth highest in the world. The country has reported 16.1 million cases to date.<br />'' <br />'' Patients in hospital with COVID-19 – not including those in intensive care – stood at 9,914 on Saturday, down from 10,076 a day earlier.<br />'' <br />'' There were 43 new admissions to intensive care units, decreasing from 46 on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients stood at 409, edging down from a previous 411.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Some 421,533 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with a previous 437,193, the health ministry said.</span><br />