The incidence of coronavirus drops from a thousand cases, figures prior to Christmas

The cumulative incidence of coronavirus has fallen below one thousand cases (984) per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure that has not been seen since December 23, the eve of the Christmas holidays. The number of deaths this Thursday is again high, 360, and a progressive decline in hospital occupancy continues.

The incidence of coronavirus falls below a thousand cases, figures prior to Christmas


The incidence of coronavirus cases falls below a thousand cases, figures prior to Christmas. EFE / Orlando Barría

This sixth wave, which began in early November, gained strength in December with the arrival of the omicron variant and skyrocketed at Christmas, reaching the peak and record for the entire pandemic on Friday, January 21, with 3,418 cases per 1,000,000.

Almost a month later, the curve has dropped rapidly and the 14-day cumulative incidence drops from 1,000 cases this Thursday, 984 compared to 1,060 yesterday.

The autonomous community with the highest incidence is Galicia (1,575) and the lowest is Andalusia with 473.

The incidence is low in all age brackets. The group from 12 to 19 years old is in the lead with 1,451 cases, followed by those under 11 with 1,307.

Deaths: 360 more

The Ministry of Health Today, it has notified 360 more deaths, a figure that is still high (yesterday 444) and many of them correspond to delayed notifications by the autonomous communities.

The total number of deaths since records are available in this pandemic is 97,710 and the lethality is 0.9%.

The infections: 34,210

Coronavirus infections continue to decline and the latest report shows 34,213 (53,055 last Thursday).

The daily record of positives in this sixth wave was reached on Thursday, January 13, with 179,125.

Since the start of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health has recorded 10,778,607 coronavirus infections in Spain.

Steady drop in hospital occupancy

The ICUs go from high to medium risk, having an occupation of 14.48% with 1,351 patients, 28 less since yesterday.

Above the very high risk of occupation (25%) are still critical units in Catalonia (28.18%).

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 10,251 covid patients (8.25% occupancy, low risk), 647 fewer patients than yesterday.

Hospital discharges (1,557) exceed admissions (907).

vaccinations

In total there are 38,396,333 citizens, 91% of the population over 12 years of age, with the complete schedule of the covid vaccine.

In addition, 23.6 million people have already received the booster dose, 78.6% of those over 40 years of age, 39.3% of those between 30 and 39 years of age and 29.3% of those between 20 and 29. years.

56.7% of children aged 5 to 11 years (1.8 million out of 3.2 million) have received the first dose of the vaccine since the campaign began on December 15 and the first are already being inoculated with the second doses after the 8-week interval.

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