The incidence of coronavirus falls more than 300 points in a week

The accumulated incidence of coronavirus has dropped 306 points since last Friday, February 18, the week in which Health has reported 1,412 deaths, although some cases are delays in notifications. The sixth wave continues to decline in all indicators, especially in hospitals.

This Friday the incidence stands at 613 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, 35 points less than yesterday (648) and compared to 919 last Friday, a difference of 306 points, still at extreme risk of transmission as long as it does not drop below 500/100,000.

However, the week of February 14 to 18 this difference in the rate of decline was, from Friday to Friday, 542 points, so the curve is slowing down.

All the autonomous communities have dropped below a thousand cases and Galicia, with 999, is in the lead, although its drop is visible since last Friday it had 1,500 new cases.

On the other side, Melilla has 290; Andalusia 313; Castile-La Mancha 390 and Madrid 398.

By age groups, the highest incidence occurs in the group of 12 to 19 years (983); followed by those between 20 and 29 years old (752).

Deaths: 1,412 reported

The Ministry of Health It has notified a total of 1,412 deaths from covid since last Friday, although many of them have an earlier date of death and have been communicated late by the autonomous communities.

This Friday, 248 deaths have been reported, 226 yesterday, 301 on Wednesday, 173 on Tuesday and 464 on Monday after the weekend.

Since death records are available from this health crisis, a total of 99,410 people have died in Spain.

Infections down

According to the Ministry of Health, the total number of positives reported this Friday compared to the previous day is 27,527 and 168,302 in the last eight days.

The previous week, from February 14 to 18, a total of 205,022 were recorded, reflecting a progressive drop in coronavirus cases.

Since the start of the pandemic, as far as is known, there have been 10,977,524 cases in Spain.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests continues to drop to 19.22%, 3.8 points less in a week.

Less hospital strain

The ICUs are at 11.38% bed occupancy with 1,053 patients, 59 less than yesterday and 231 less since Friday, February 18.

No autonomous community is in a situation of extreme risk (more than 25% occupancy), although Catalonia has 20.75%.

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 7,248 covid patients (5.848% occupancy), 576 less than yesterday and 2,494 less than the previous Friday.

vaccinations

In total there are 38,425,973 citizens91.1% of the population over 12 years of age, with the full schedule of the covid vaccine.

In addition, 24 million people have already received the booster dose, 50.7% of the general population.

57.1% of children between 5 and 11 years old (1.8 million out of 3.2 million) have received at least one dose and 16.7% already have the complete schedule since the start of the pediatric vaccination campaign.

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