The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has confirmed that the sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain consolidates its decline after reducing the accumulated incidence by 21% since it peaked on January 21 with 3,418 cases and up to 2,564 per 100,00 inhabitants of this Wednesday. For the moment, the outdoor masks are maintained, although “this measure is getting closer to modulating,” she says.
The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, during the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, this Wednesday in Madrid. EFE / Kiko Huesca
This decline in the sixth wave of coronavirus is also accompanied by a drop in daily infections below 100,000 since yesterday (86,222 today).
After the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, Darias explained at a press conference that this drop in transmission occurs in all age groups, although it remains high in those under 11 years of age (5,156 cases/100,000). .
The lower severity of this sixth wave, although there is still a high number of deaths, 224 reported since yesterday, is due, according to the minister, to the high vaccination rate, 90.8% with a complete schedule.
The omicron variant already exceeds 95% of reported cases, although it varies according to each territory.
Epidemiological data
The cumulative incidence at 14 days it has dropped 130 points since yesterday to 2,564 cases/100,000 inhabitants, while the incidence at 7 days drops from 1,028 to 955.
All the autonomous communities are at the bottom of new infections with Catalonia in the lead (4,397) and followed by the Valencian Community, Aragon, Cantabria, Murcia, Navarra, Andalusia and Ceuta with more than 3,000 cases and, at the other extreme, Andalusia with 885.
The Ministry of Health has notified this Wednesday 86,222 cases since yesterday. The total number of infections since the start of the pandemic is 10,125,348.
The positivity rate of diagnostic testsdownwards, is 35.83%.
Since yesterday 224 are reported deaths more (yesterday there were 408) and 799 with a date of death in the last 7 days.
The total since there are records of deaths certified by tests in the pandemic in Spain is 93,857.
The global lethality represents 0.9%.
There is also a decrease in the hospital occupation.
The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (plant and ICU) is 17,441, 646 fewer since yesterday and drops to 13.9% of occupied beds.
ICU occupancy drops to 21.34% (21.71% yesterday) with 2,010 patients, 44 less than yesterday.
Catalonia continues to lead the occupation by covid in critical units, although in slow decline to 39%, while Aragon is at 32%.
Vaccines: In total there are 38.3 million citizens -90.8% of the total population- with the double dose, of which 21.9 million have the extra or booster serum against the coronavirus (75.9% of those over 40 years) and 55.1 of children aged 5 to 11 with the first dose.
The masks, closer to stop using outdoors
Although infections are falling, the Ministry of Health considers that it is not yet time to lower our guard and stop using masks abroad.
This is how he defended it last night in Congress in the validation of the decree law approved on December 22 to go back to wearing masks abroad (since it was already mandatory indoors) due to the increase in infections by omicron and before the Christmas holidays.
And it has also done so after the Interterritorial Council where some autonomous communities have raised it.
Galicia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León and Madrid believe that it is time to start thinking about their withdrawal.
The minister has said that “we are closer to modulating that measure” that is necessary “for the strictly essential time”.
Nor has the possibility of reducing home quarantines due to covid, now set at 7 days, been discussed.
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