The Ministry of Health plans to change the current model of epidemiological surveillance, of control of the pandemic in Spain, once the sixth wave is overcome, which this week has entered a “gentle decline”. This has been stated by the head of the department, Carolina Darias, who has indicated that home quarantines due to covid will continue to be, for the time being, seven days.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias (l), together with the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies of the Ministry of Health, Fernando Simón (2l), during the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System. EFE / Borja Puig De La Bellacasa / Pool Moncloa
After the meeting this afternoon of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, the Minister of Health highlighted at a press conference that a transition is opening towards “a new surveillance model” of the pandemic but “not before the end of the sixth wave Calmly and cautiously.”
The progressive change in the epidemiological situation, with more infections but mild in most cases due to both the characteristics of the omicron variant and the high vaccination rate, lead to the proposal of a new counting system in line with the experts and in national and international co-governance.
Darias has specified that the probability of hospitalization has been reduced 7 times in this wave compared to the third just a year ago, going from 6.5% to 0.9%, while ICU occupancy has dropped from 40 % to 22% current.
Asked about the approach of Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, the Valencian Community and Galicia to reduce home quarantines due to covid from 7 to 4 or 5 days, the minister indicated that at the meeting only one counselor raised it as a possibility to study .
“This is an issue that is still immature, we must be very aware of the situation we are in,” he pointed out.
The current maximum capacity for sporting events is also maintained: 75% outdoors and 50% indoors.
New drop in incidence
The cumulative incidence at 14 days has dropped for the third day in a row, 73 points from yesterday to 3,194 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
“A slight decline in the last week after eleven consecutive weeks of growth,” the minister pointed out.
By age groups, the incidence is low in all groups except in those under 11 years of age, in the process of being vaccinated, with an incidence of 5,666 cases/100,000.
The Ministry of Health It has notified 133,553 more cases this Wednesday (114,877 yesterday), of which 52,034 have a diagnosis date of Tuesday and a cumulative of 9,529,320.
The positivity rate of diagnostic tests, 37.75%, continues to decline this week.
Deaths, 215 more
After the maximum of 382 deaths reported yesterday, a figure that had not been reached since February 2021 in the fall of the third wave, 215 more were added this Wednesday.
With a date of death in the last 7 days there are 757 deaths and 92,591 since there are records of deaths certified by tests in the pandemic in Spain. The global lethality is 1%.
decline in hospitals
The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (ward and ICU) is 18,805, 329 less than yesterday, 15.06% bed occupancy (15.47% yesterday).
In the ucis there are 2,152 covid patients, 52 less than yesterday, who occupy 22.74% of the beds after more than two weeks above 23%.
Catalonia continues to lead the occupation with 41%, while Aragon and Melilla are above 30%.
Spain has a notification of an omicron sublineage
Ómicron continues to gain space and occupies 86% of the sequenced samples; in our country and in the rest of the world, the minister explained; BA.1 is the dominant sublineage.
Spain has only one notification of the BA.1 sublineage, which is currently of concern in Denmark, Sweden and India and which the WHO has asked to monitor, counting on the time lag of between 2 and 3 weeks that exists and the sequencing that confirms it.
Regarding this sublineage, “the information we have from Denmark is that it does not seem, said with all caution, that it behaves very differently from BA.1”, although Health will be “very attentive” to its evolution, Darias has guaranteed. .
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