The rate of weekly decline in the incidence of coronavirus slows down

The cumulative incidence of coronavirus cases has dropped in one week, from Friday to Friday, 150 points, to 463 cases per 100,000. In the same period of the previous week that difference was more than 300 points, so the rate of decline is slowing down. The Ministry of Health has reported today 22,400 infections and 174 more deaths.

A health worker walks down the corridor of a hospital. EFE/Javier Belver

Compared to yesterday, the accumulated incidence has dropped by only 12 points, but the decline phase of the sixth wave continues in Spain, which has already left the extreme risk (more than 500 cases) and is at high risk.

The Canary Islands are rising in cases this week with an incidence of 868/100,000, compared to 692 last Friday.

Still at extreme risk are Galicia (722, slowly falling); Murcia (667); Aragon (508); Catalonia (659); Extremadura (572, slightly rising) and La Rioja (571).

With less incidence, at low risk: Andalusia (276); Castile-La Mancha (269); Madrid (268) and Melilla (238).

By age brackets, the highest incidence occurs in the group of 12 to 19 years (727); followed by those between 20 and 29 years old (597) and those between 30 and 39 (507).

Deaths: 1,003 reported

The Ministry of Health has notified a total of 1,003 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.

Last Wednesday, more than 100,000 deaths from covid were reached since records were kept at the beginning of the pandemic and this Friday they add up to 100,413.

Compared to yesterday, 174 more deaths were reported.

Infections down

According to him Ministry of Healththe total of positive notified this Friday compared to the previous day is 22,400 and 122,904 in the last eight days.

The previous week, from February 21 to 25, a total of 168,302 were recorded, reflecting a progressive drop in coronavirus cases.

This week the barrier of 11 million infections was also overcome, 11,100,428 this Friday, since the start of the pandemic.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests It continues to drop to 16.62%, 2.6% less in a week.

No pressure in hospitals

The ICUs are at 9.3% bed occupancy with 851 patients, 39 fewer than yesterday and 202 fewer since Friday, February 25.

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 5,693 covid patients (4.5% occupancy), 296 less than yesterday and 1,555 less than the previous Friday.

vaccinations

In total there are 39.1 citizens, 91.1% of the population over 12 years of age, with the complete schedule of the covid vaccine.

In addition, 24.2 million people have already received the booster dose, 51.1% of the general population.

57.6% of children between 5 and 11 years old (1.8 million out of 3.2 million) have received at least one dose and 20.1% already have the complete schedule since the start of the pediatric vaccination campaign.

The sixth covid wave continues its solid decline in March

The sixth wave of covid in Spain enters the month of March, maintaining a solid decline in all indicators of the evolution of the pandemic

Sample of an antigen test. EFE/David Arquimbau

The data on the evolution of the coronavirus add up to four days this first day of March, since yesterday, Monday, they were not updated due to technical problems.

They are, therefore, new data since last Friday, February 25.

In these four days, all the indicators of the pandemic have continued to drop significantly.

New infections and accumulated incidence

The cases in these four days are 58,561, a figure that barely shows 15,000 infections on average daily.

The total number of people infected since the pandemic broke out almost two years ago exceeds 11 million (11,036,085).

The accumulated incidence has fallen almost 100 points on these dates and stands at 515.10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, very close to the 500 barrier, below which the extreme risk is left. Last Friday the incidence was 613.15.

By communities, the one with the highest incidence is Galicia (825) and the lowest figure is Melilla (252).

There are six regions, in addition to Melilla, below 500 incidence cases: Balearic Islands (446), Basque Country (432), Ceuta (421), Andalusia (333), Madrid (320) and Castilla-La Mancha (302) .

By age groups, the highest incidence is in the age group between 12 and 19 years old (792) and the lowest is in people between 60 and 69 years old (346).

The ucis, below 1,000 patients admitted

The pressure on hospitals continues to drop.

In the plant there are 6,478 patients with SARS-CoV-2 (5.2%), compared to 7,248 last Friday.

962 seriously ill covid patients (10.4%) are registered in intensive care units. On Friday, February 25, there were 1,053.

The patients admitted in the last 24 hours are 609 compared to 876 who have been discharged.

PCR positivity has dropped from 19.2 percent four days ago to 17.1 percent.

Deceased

Since last Friday the number of deaths has slowed down, adding 473 in four days, about 120 daily.

The official global number of deaths is 99,883, about to reach 100,000 in almost two years.

Two women walk down the street, with and without masks. EFE/David Aguilar

Slight slowdown in the rate of decline in the incidence of coronavirus

The rate of the incidence of coronavirus cases shows a slight slowdown, falling 50 points since yesterday, the lowest difference in recent weeks. All the indicators of the sixth wave continue to fall, especially daily infections, 22,194, and deaths, 173.

Two men consume at the bar of a bar in San Sebastián after the restrictions are lifted. EFE/Javier Etxezarreta

After the weekend, the incidence fell 133 points this Monday compared to Friday and 65 compared to Thursday, so a slight slowdown is observed.

The accumulated incidence stands at 735 cases per 100,000 (786 yesterday), still in a situation of very high risk of transmission until it drops below 500 cases.

Only Galicia (1,194 cases) and Murcia (1,040) are above a thousand cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

At the other extreme, Melilla (392) and Andalusia (419).

By age brackets the incidence was low in all groups, with 12 to 19 year-olds leading the way with 1,074 cases, followed by 20 to 29 with 853 and under 11 with 847 cases.

The infections: 22,194

Health It has reported 22,194 infections since yesterday, the lowest daily figure in recent weeks and 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 10,880,194 coronavirus infections on record.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests still down to 20.39% vs. 21.32 yesterday.

Deaths: 173 deaths

The Ministry of Health has reported 173 more deaths, one of the lowest figures in recent days since 464 were reported yesterday, and there are cases that are due to delays in communication.

The total number of deaths since records are available in this pandemic is 98,635.

The drop in hospital occupancy continues

The ICUs are at 12.77% bed occupancy with 1,185 patients, 39 fewer since yesterday and at medium risk (between 10 and 5%).

All the autonomous communities are below the very high risk of occupation (25%). Catalonia is the one with the most occupation (23.93%) and Galicia the one with the least, 3.36%, in a new normality.

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 8,859 covid patients (7.13% occupancy), 505 fewer patients than last Friday and in a situation of medium risk (5 to 10% of occupied beds).

In the last 24 hours, 747 people have been admitted due to covid and 1,268 have been discharged.

More than 95,000 covid deaths in Spain in full decline of the sixth wave

The epidemiological indicators of the sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain are in the declining phase, although this Wednesday 282 more deaths were reported, totaling 95,213 since records of this health crisis were available. The incidence of cases drops another 200 points since yesterday and hospitals lighten their occupation.

Two people in the waiting room of a hospital in Murcia. EFE/Marcial Guillen/File

After 335 deaths were reported on Monday and 361 on Tuesday, today there are 282, although it may be that, in many cases, they are deaths reported late.

With a death date of the last seven days, there are 812 deaths and the fatality rate stands at 0.9%.

The incidence: drop of 200 points

The 14-day cumulative incidence of coronavirus continues to decline at a good pace, down 200 points from yesterday to 1,692 cases per 100,000 (1,893 yesterday).

All regions have dropped below three thousand infections per 100,000 inhabitants and those that are at the head of the incidence with more than 2,500 positives are Murcia (2,599); Cantabria (2,583) and Catalonia (2,571).

At the other extreme, Andalusia stands out with 567 cases and the Canary Islands with 689, according to data released this Wednesday by the Ministry of Health.

For age bracketsthe incidence is low in all groups, especially in those under 11 years of age, with 2,795 infections per 100,000 inhabitants (3,081 yesterday).

The infections: 62,839, one of the lowest figures

According to the Ministry of Health, there have been 62,839 more infections in the last 24 hours, one of the lowest figures since the descending phase of the sixth wave began on January 21 and taking into account that yesterday Catalonia did not provide its data for which 43,831 were registered.

Since the start of the pandemic in Spain there have been 10,502,141 reported cases.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests continues to drop to 30.81%.

Hospital occupancy is lightened

The ucis are at 18.12% bed occupancy with 1,700 patients, 68 less since this Tuesday.

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 14,440 covid patients (11.58% occupancy), 766 less than yesterday.

vaccinations

The third or extra doses already reach almost 23 million citizens, of the 38,360,610 -80.9% of the total population- who have the double injected serum.

91.8% of those over 60 have it, while also 74.3% from 50 to 59 and 56% from 40 to 49. This rate drops significantly between thirty-somethings (36%) and twenty-somethings (23). ,4 %).

Childhood vaccination has increased at a much lower rate in recent weeks and reaches 55.7% of children between 5 and 11 years of age with their first injection.

The sixth wave continues to decline in cases but with 361 more deaths

The sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain continues in the declining phase with 104 points less than yesterday to 1,893 cases per 100,000 incidence, without data from Catalonia. The deaths, however, add up to 361 reported in the last 24 hours.

Health personnel carry out diagnostic tests to detect the coronavirus. EFE/Alejandro Garcia/File

Another 335 deaths were also recorded yesterday, in many cases due to deaths reported late. With a death date of the last seven days there are 762 deaths.

Since records are available, the total number of deaths in Spain in the pandemic is 94,931.

The incidence: high rate of decrease

The sixth wave continues its decrease in the cumulative incidence of coronavirus over 14 days to 1,893 cases per 100,000 compared to 1,997 infections yesterday, 104 points less.

All the regions, except Catalonia, which has not updated its data (3,139 cases yesterday), have dropped below three thousand infections per 100,000 inhabitants, such as Murcia (2,848) or Valencia (2,691).

At the other extreme, Andalusia stands out with 638 cases and the Canary Islands with 746, according to data released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Health.

For age bracketsthe low incidence in all groups, especially in those under 11 years of age with 3,081 cases (3,489 yesterday).

The infections: 43,831, one of the lowest figures

According to the Ministry of Health, there have been 43,831 infections more in the last 24 hours, one of the lowest figures since the downward phase of the sixth wave began and taking into account that Catalonia has not provided its data (yesterday it registered 31,335 positives).

Since the start of the pandemic in Spain, a total of 10,395,471 cases have been reported.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests continues to drop to 31.16%.

Keep lowering the pressure in hospitals

The ICUs are at 18.76% bed occupancy with 1,768 patients, 70 fewer since Monday.

In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 15,206 covid patients (12.2% occupancy), 785 less than yesterday.

Vaccines

In total there are 38.3 million citizens, 90.9% of the population over 12 years of age with the full course of the covid vaccine.

In addition, 22.2 million people have already received the booster dose, 77.3% of those over 40 years of age.

55.6% of children aged 5 to 11 years (1.8 million of 3.3 million) have received the first dose of the vaccine since the campaign began on December 15.

On the other hand, the Public Health Commission has agreed to allocate the new Novavax vaccine to people who had not yet been able to be vaccinated or who had received an incomplete vaccination due to allergies to any of the components of the other four vaccines available in Spain or due to other Medical indications.

The sixth wave of coronavirus consolidates its decline

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.

The evolution of the sixth wave of covid in Spain continues to decline

“All the data indicates that we have bent the curve” of the incidence of covid-19, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, assured this Friday in Palma, who, however, has appealed for prudence regarding the end of the sixth pandemic wave

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, visits the Son Llàtzer University Hospital, a beneficiary center of the High Technology Investment Plan (INVEAT) in Palma de Mallorca, this Friday. EFE / Cati Cladera

Darias, who visited the Son Llàzer hospital in Palma this morning accompanied by the Balearic Minister of Health, Patricia Gómez, highlighted that in the wave dominated by the omicron variant, despite the fact that the incidence has multiplied by seven compared to the third wave, which occurred a year ago, “hospitalization, ICUs and deaths are much lower.”

This difference, he stressed, is explained by the “very high vaccination coverage” and by the lower virulence of the omicron variant.

The minister has indicated that, in coordination with the Autonomous Communities and with the European institutions, her department is working on the design of a new phase of containment of covid-19 in which “from emergency surveillance to surveillance by objectives, and of better quality than the current one».

Today’s data and balance of the week

In line with the minister’s statements, today’s data continues to reflect the decline in the indicators of the evolution of the pandemic in this sixth wave, although with 199 deaths in a single day.

The new cases are 118,922, up to a total of about 10 million (9,779,130).

Between Friday of last week, January 21, and this Friday, 803,672 infections are recorded.

The accumulated incidence drops 61 points and stands at 3,078 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The balance of the week shows a drop of 340 points of accumulated incidence since last Friday it reached the maximum figure with 3,418.

Catalonia is together with the Valencian Community the only communities that slightly increase the incidence compared to yesterday. Catalonia is also in first place in this figure with 5,352, while Andalusia is in last place (1,076).

Po age groups all fell slightly except for those under 11 years of age, who rose, are in the first place of incidence and figure 5,813 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

hospital pressure

The hospital pressure of covid patients continues to drop both on the ward and in the ICUs, in relation to yesterday and also compared to last Friday.

In the week, there are 282 fewer hospitalized: today 18,393 (14.7%) and last Friday 18,675.

In the ICUs, the weekly decrease has been 142 patients, today with 2,060 (21.7 percent).

This Friday’s registrations continue to exceed income: 2,305 registrations compared to 2,049 admissions.

The positivity by PCR has dropped in seven days six tenths, going from 38 percent a week ago to 37.4% today.

Deceased

The deceased registered in the last 24 hours are 199, up to an official total of 92,966.

The weekly balance of deaths is 1,225, with an average of 175 per day.

Caution in Spain in the face of the first cases of the “stealth omicron”

Madrid, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands have been the first communities to detect cases of the “stealth omicron” (the BA.2 sublineage), whose advance, for the moment, is taken with caution but without special concern among health authorities and experts.

This subvariant of omicron, which differs from the original in some mutations, including the spike protein, has already spread to some 40 countries, such as Denmark, the United Kingdom or India, which is why the World Health Organization has requested that it be monitor its development.

In total, up to 5 cases have been detected in Spain, according to the data communicated by these three communities until Thursday, a figure that is expected to increase in the coming days because it is assumed to be highly transmissible, although it is more difficult to detect in certain diagnostic tests. , which is why it has been baptized as “stealthy or silent”.

The Minister of Health explained yesterday in Congress that Ba.2 behaves “similarly” to BA.1, although she has said it “with all prudence”, because it is still under evaluation.

Test to detect the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 at the Bangalore train station (India). EFE/EPA/IDREES MOHAMMED