The sixth wave seems to continue slowly in the declining phase and this Thursday all the epidemiological indicators show drops compared to yesterday: from the incidence of cases to the pressure in hospitals, infections and the number of deaths.
A health worker performs an antigen test on a woman during the population screening held in Ribadavia, in Ourense. EFE / Brais Lorenzo
The 14-day cumulative incidence drops 55 points from yesterday to 3,139 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and for the fourth consecutive day after reaching the record for the entire pandemic last Friday, 3,418 cases, although it is not yet possible to specify if the number has been reached. maximum peak of this sixth wave.
The 7-day cumulative incidence is also down, from 1,359 yesterday to 1,335 today.
Catalonia has the highest accumulated incidence 5,287 and Melilla is also above 5,000 cases.
Between 4,000 and 3,000 cases are Navarra, Murcia, Aragón, Cantabria and Valencia.
For age brackets, the incidence is low in all age groups except in those under 11 years of age who, up to 5 years of age, are in the process of vaccination and who register the highest rate of new infections 5,782/100,000 compared to 5,666 on Wednesday.
Catalonia registers the highest in Spain, with 11,667 cases per 100,000 children, and is followed in this age group by Aragón, Navarra, Cantabria or Ceuta, with incidences above 8,000 and in some cases bordering on 9,000 points.
The infections: 130,888
The Ministry of Health has notified 130,888 this Thursday, 2,665 less than yesterday.
Of these infections, 50,483 have a diagnosis date of yesterday and the rest are cases reported late.
The total number of infections since the start of the pandemic is 9,660,208.
The positivity rate of diagnostic tests remains at 37.75% since yesterday.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has indicated this Thursday in the Health Commission of the Congress of Deputies that it is being considered that the epidemiological data distinguish between hospitalized by covid and with covid, which now compute together, and once this new accounting in the system the next issue would be to do it with the deceased.
Darias has said that they are working on “advancing” in this distinction because it is not the same to be admitted for covid than to be hospitalized for an intervention for another pathology “and when performing a PCR, it is positive.”
Deaths: 176 more
This Thursday, the Ministry of Health has reported 176 more deaths in the last 24 hours.
This is the lowest figure this week after yesterday’s 215 deaths and Monday’s 253. It should be noted that 382 deaths were reported on Tuesday, a record number since the third wave, due to the fact that the Basque Country reported delayed deaths.
With date of death in the last 7 days there are 760 deceased.
The total number of deaths since there are records of deaths certified by tests in the pandemic in Spain is 92,767.
The global lethality is 1%.
Slow decline in hospital occupancy
The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (plant and ICU) is 18,548, 257 less since yesterday, and drops from 15% extreme risk to 14.85%, high risk.
The occupancy of the ICUs continues to drop and is at 22.16% with 2,099 patients, 53 less than yesterday.
Catalonia continues to lead the occupation by covid in the critical units, 41%, while Aragón is at 31% and the Balearic Islands and Melilla at 29%.
A year ago, a different epidemiological situation
Just a year ago, on January 27, 2021, the peak of the third wave was reached (899 cases per 100,000) and a record until the arrival, in December, of the omicron variant that has triggered infections, the vast majority mild.
The epidemiological situation then was very different: in full rise, 40,285 positives and 492 more deaths were reported in 24 hours.
The ICUs exceeded the extreme risk with 41.90% of beds occupied by 4,515 patients, while in the hospitals (floor and ICU) there were 30,789 patients, 24% occupancy.
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