The evolution of the covid allows sporting events to return to 100% capacity

The good evolution of the sixth wave of covid in Spain allows a return to 100% capacity for sporting events from March 4. The worst data is deaths, this Wednesday 444

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

The Interterritorial Health Council has known the date to recover 100% the capacity of sporting events, outdoors and indoors, maintaining the use of a mask, without eating or drinking during these events.

It was announced by the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, at the usual press conference after the Health Councils, in which the councilors of the autonomous communities participate.

The minister has verified the good evolution of the pandemic.

The accumulated incidence and the pressure on hospitals continue to fall

Today’s data on the evolution of the covid encrypts 37,108 cases, completing a total of 10,744,394.

Of all these cases since the coronavirus broke out almost two years ago, almost 4.5 million have been in the sixth wave, which began its development at the beginning of last December, Darias pointed out.

The accumulated incidence, number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants, has continued to drop today, and stands at 1,060, more than 80 points less than yesterday.

At the head of the incidence is Galicia (1,682), with six places below a thousand: Andalusia (473), the lowest figure; Canary Islands (531); Melilla (683); Madrid (788); Castile-La Mancha (795) and Ceuta (836).

By age groups, the highest incidence is found in the age group between 12 and 19 years (1,564), and the lowest between 60 and 69 (630).

covid in hospitals

The wide drop in pressure in hospitals due to covid continues.

Today’s data counts 10,898 patients on the ward for SARS-CoV-2 (yesterday, 11,438). They are 8.7 percent of the total and 540 less.

In the ucis 1,372 patients are encrypted this Wednesday (yesterday, 1,459). They are 14.7 percent of the total covid patients in intensive care units and 87 less.

Patients admitted for coronavirus in 24 hours in health centers are still much less than those who are discharged. Today compared to 1,058 admissions, 1,639 discharges.

PCR positivity continues to fall as well. Today it figures 25.1 percent (yesterday, 26.8%).

Deaths

Deaths from covid continue to be the worst data of the sixth wave. Today there are 444 deaths, which places the official global death toll since the pandemic began at 97,350.

The minister has offered lethality data comparing different waves of the virus.

The sixth wave, with almost 4.5 million infections so far, has registered 6,589 deaths, with a fatality rate of 0.15 percent, which contrasts with the third wave, between the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021, which with 1 .4 million cases represented 24,321 deaths and a lethality of 1.68%.

According to these data from the minister, the fifth wave, which affected groups of young people more, had 1.2 million cases and 5,600 deaths.

Vaccines

Carolina Darias has also given data on vaccination and has reiterated that “vaccines work.”

• 91 percent of those over 12 years of age are vaccinated with the full schedule.

• 92 percent of those over 60 years of age have the booster dose of immunization, a third dose also having 78% of those over 40 years of age.

• 56.5% of children between 5 and 11 years old have received the first dose of the anticovid vaccine.

The minister has made an appeal not to slow down the vaccination of children under 12 years of age.

Futsal fans in a match in early February 2022/EFE/Natalia Aguilar

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