The results of serological tests
conducted and analysed by the health ministry and statistics
agency ISTAT suggest that 1.482 million people in Italy, 2.5% of
the resident population, have developed antibodies for SarsCov2.
The estimate suggests that six times as many people have come
into contact with the coronavirus than the number of confirmed
cases identified so far.
The "provisional' analysis is based on 64,660 serological tests
taken as part of a campaign to see how widely the coronavirus
has spread in the Italian population.
The campaign failed to hit the target of doing 150,000
serological tests but the health ministry and ISTAT said the
analysis was still valid.
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