Weekly balance of the third week of February of the covid in Spain

Week after week, the sixth wave of covid in Spain continues to fall sharply in all the indicators that mark the evolution of the pandemic, but not deaths, more than 2,000 in the last seven days

Covid in Spain, weekly balance: the sharp drop in indicators continues, but not deaths


A health worker attends to a covid patient in a hospital in Rome. EFE/EPA/GIUSEPPE LAMI

The cumulative incidence of the coronavirus continues to fall in this sixth wave.

This Friday, with infections down (30,615), the incidence drops 65 points and stands at 919 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The total number of infected since the pandemic began amounts to 10,809,222.

This week there have been just over 200,000 new cases, while the previous week this data was close to 330,000 thousand infections in seven days.

In this week, the incidence has gone from 1,461 on Friday, February 11, to 919 today. Over 500 drop points.

By communities there are nine that fall below 1,000, with Andalusia in the lower range (471) and Galicia marking the maximum figure (1,500).

By age groups, it is young people between 12 and 19 years of age who record the peak incidence (1,370), with people between 60 and 69 registering the minimum (565).

pressure in hospitals

In hospitals, satisfactorily, the pressure drops sharply due to the number of patients with covid.

Last Friday, 12,843 patients (10.3%) had been admitted; today the data is 9,742 (7.8%). They are 3,101 less in seven days.

And less than 10,000 patients had not been in health centers since the last days of last December.

In intensive care units, last Friday there were 1,588 infected with SARS-CoV-2 with a serious prognosis (16.9%), while today there are 1,284, 304 less with a percentage of 13.7.

Other data

The patients admitted for covid in the last 24 hours have been 869, compared to 1,346 discharges.

The positivity by PCR is today 23 percent, 6.5 points less than last Friday (29.4%).

Deaths

The positive of the data throughout this month of February does not translate, sadly, into the numbers of people killed by covid.

In the last 24 hours, 288 people have died from coronavirus, and in the last week 2,003.

The previous week the number of deaths was 1,760, so this indicator, for the moment, continues to rise.

So far in February, the number of deaths from covid rises to 4,365, in 18 days.

The official total death toll from the pandemic is 97,998, not far from 100,000.

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The Minister of Health Carolina Darías, during the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, this Wednesday, February 16, at the Palacio de la Moncloa, in Madrid. EFE/Rodrigo Jimenez

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