Spain has come out of the extreme risk of coronavirus transmission by dropping below 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (486), although the total number of deaths already exceeds 100,000. This scenario poses a change in the epidemiological surveillance strategy that will be analyzed on March 10 with the autonomous communities in Zaragoza.
The celebration of the Mobile Word Congress in Barcelona, a reflection of the recovery of normality due to the pandemic. EFE/Enric Fontcuberta
The average number of infections in Spain reached the extreme or very high risk of coronavirus transmission on December 17 and continued to rise until reaching the peak of the sixth wave on Friday, January 21, with 3,418 cases per 100,000 inhabitants after the outbreak of the omicron variant.
After the meeting this afternoon of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, at a press conference, considered that Spain is “on the right track” and that for that reason the new scenarios must be analyzed epidemiological.
Thus, Darias has announced the holding on March 10 of a meeting in Zaragoza of the Government with the autonomous communities and epidemiological experts to address the global health surveillance strategy and the transition to a new model “jointly” throughout the national territory and in coordination with the European Union.
Asked if there has been a debate about eliminating the mandatory nature of masks indoors (it is no longer mandatory outdoors) and if the proposal to start by removing them in schools, as proposed by Catalonia and Andalusia, has been discussed, the minister has forwarded to the meeting on March 10 in Zaragoza.
“When we go together we advance further, we must work in a rhythmic manner to take firm steps forward”, he added.
The Ministry of Health has decided to change the periodicity, now from Monday to Friday, of the national epidemiological evolution reports. Thus, the vaccination report will be given one day a week from the next and the incidence, infections, deaths and hospital occupation will be issued two days a week from March 14.
The data
The cumulative incidence it has dropped 29 points since yesterday from 515 to 486 cases per 100,000.
Above this extreme risk of transmission of the virus are Galicia, the Canary Islands and Murcia with more than 700 cases; Catalonia and the Basque Country with more than 600 and with more than 500, Aragón, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Extremadura and Navarra.
With less incidence: Melilla (246); Castilla-La Mancha (274), Andalusia (291) and Madrid (297).
By age bracketsthe group between 12 and 19 years old has the highest incidence (742), followed by those between 20 and 29 years old (620).
Health has reported 18,803 infections since yesterday, the lowest daily figure in recent weeks.
Since the start of the pandemic in Spain there are already 11,054,888 coronavirus infections on record.
The positivity rate of diagnostic tests it continues to fall to 17.06%, a few tenths less than yesterday.
Despite the decline in all indicators, the death toll remains high and, since records have been available since the start of the pandemic, 100,037 have been reached this Wednesday, after the 154 most reported since yesterday.
The ucis they are at 9.8% bed occupancy with 902 patients, although they are still at high risk (between 10% and 5%).
In Spanish hospitals, on the ward and ICU, there are 6,188 covid patients (4.9% occupancy) and in a low risk situation (from 5% to 2% of occupied beds).
Vaccines
In total there are 39,062,167 citizens91% of the population over 12 years of age, with the full course of the covid vaccine.
In addition, 24.1 million people have already received the booster dose, 50.9% of the general population.
57.5% of children between 5 and 11 years old (1.8 million out of 3.2 million) have received at least one dose and 19% already have the complete schedule since the campaign started on December 15 pediatric vaccination.
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