The current week is being confirmed as that of the decline in the curve of the sixth wave of covid. All indicators of the pandemic continue to fall
Two women talk sitting on a bench in the streets of the Born neighborhood in Barcelona. EFE / Enric Fontcuberta
The falls are generalized in all the communities and in all the indicators.
The cases are already well below 100,000 daily, this Thursday 74,368 to a total of 10,199,716 infections since the coronavirus broke out almost two years ago.
The accumulated incidence, number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, registers considerable decreases; today 144 points and figure 2,420.
By communities, Catalonia, going down, is the one with the highest incidence (4,046).
Andalusia, the least affected in this sixth wave, has already dropped to 831.
By age groups, those under 11 years of age continue to lead but falling (4,569).
The lowest incidence is offered by the age group between 60 and 69 years (1,173).
Notable drop in hospital pressure
The number of patients with covid continues to fall both on the hospital floor and in the ICUs.
Today those admitted to the centers are 17,012 (13.5%), compared to 17,441 yesterday. A fall of more than 400 patients in one day.
Patients with SARS-CoV-2 in intensive care units drop below 2,000, since they number 1,947 (20.6%), while yesterday 2,010 were counted.
There is still a substantial number of daily entries. Today 1,722, but for days now the highs are clearly higher, this Thursday, 2,195.
PCR positivity continues to drop day by day, albeit slowly. If yesterday it was 35.3%, today it is 34.8%.
Deaths
Deaths don’t go down as clearly. Today there are 183 up to a total of 94,040, with a lethality that does not reach 1 percent.
Darias: Hipra will be “the European vaccine we were all waiting for”
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, assured this Thursday in Valencia that the Spanish Hipra vaccine, which has reached its last phase, “is going to be the vaccine, the European vaccine that we were all waiting for” against the coronavirus.
During an appearance before the media together with the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, after visiting the Clínic and Fe hospitals in Valencia, as well as the “vaccination center” installed in the City of Arts and Sciences, Darias stated regarding Hipra that it is “fantastic news to have a Spanish vaccine that is going very well” in the phases developed so far.
After recalling that the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has authorized its passage to phase 3, it has indicated that the results of the previous phases “are very encouraging in the generation of neutralizing antibodies.”
In this last phase, for which there are 3,000 volunteers (around 600 in the Clinical Hospital of Valencia), the safety and tolerability of the vaccine will be seen.
The minister affirms that the removal of outdoor masks “will be soon”
Carolina Darias, when asked when the masks will be removed outdoors, stated that “it will be soon” because in Spain “we are on the right track” and with the conditions to “relax measures”.
The minister has made this assessment after recalling the high rate of vaccination coverage in Spain, where 90.8 percent of those over 12 years of age have the full schedule and more than 90% of those over 60 years of age have the dose of reinforcement.
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