There are already three communities and one autonomous city that have left the area of extreme risk of coronavirus transmission (less than 500 cases per 100,000): Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Community of Madrid and Melilla. The Ministry of Health has reported 301 more deaths and 33,911 infections since yesterday.
Terraces in Valencia. EFE/Biel Aliño
The 14-day cumulative incidence has dropped 58.5 points since Tuesday to 676 cases per 100,000 inhabitants on average, still an extreme risk of transmission in the whole of Spain.
The community with the highest accumulated incidence and the only one that exceeds a thousand infections is Galicia (1,126), while Andalusia (390), Castilla-La Mancha (433) and Madrid (476) are below 500 cases, high risk of transmission.
By age bracketsthe incidence was low in all groups, with 12 to 19 year-olds leading the way with 1,030 cases, followed by 20 to 29 with 820 and under 11 with 775 cases.
Deaths: 301 deaths
One more day the Ministry of Health has notified a high number of deaths, 301, after yesterday there were 173 and 464 last Monday, although there may be delays in notifications by the autonomous communities.
The death toll during the sixth wave, which began just over four months ago, amounts to 12,019.
The total number of deaths since records are available in this pandemic is 98,936.
The infections: 33,911
Health It has reported 33,911 infections since yesterday, a figure somewhat higher than that of Tuesday, 22,194, although far from the more than 300,000 that were reached after a weekend at the peak of the sixth wave.
Since the start of the pandemic in Spain, there are already 10,914,105 confirmed cases of coronavirus.
The positivity rate of diagnostic tests it continues to fall to 20.35%, four tenths less than yesterday.
Hospital occupancy continues to decline
The ICUs are at 12.52% bed occupancy with 1,162 patients, 23 less since yesterday although still at high risk (between 10 and 5%).
All the autonomous communities are below the extreme risk of occupation (25%). Catalonia and Aragon have 22% occupancy, while Galicia stands at 3.2%, in a new normality.
In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 8,258 covid patients (6.6% occupancy), 601 fewer patients than last Friday and in a situation of medium risk (from 5% to 10% of occupied beds).
In the last 24 hours, 732 people have been admitted due to covid and 1,253 have been discharged.
Vaccines
In total there are 38,398,979 citizens, 91% of the population over 12 years of age, with the full schedule of the covid vaccine.
In addition, 23.9 million people have already received the booster dose, 50.5% of the general population.
57% of children aged 5 to 11 years (1.8 million out of 3.2 million) have received at least one dose and 15.8% already have the complete schedule since the campaign started on December 15 pediatric vaccination.
