Coronavirus Barranquilla: indicators of covid-19 February 2022 - Barranquilla - Colombia

Karen Ferreira, a 35-year-old woman from Barranquilla, was one of the people who received her booster dose on Monday at the vaccination point of the Elijah Chegwin Coliseumfrom the North locality – Historical Center of the city.

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“Thanks to the vaccines we are improving, we are lowering the rates in our city. With the vaccine, we protect the whole family and all the people around us, ”he said minutes after getting vaccinated.

This perception of improvement is based on the figures that the INS has delivered in recent days, but which at the same time constitute a call not to lower our guard and continue with the vaccination rateaccording to the district secretary of Health, Humberto Mendoza.

The INS monitoring indicators against covid-19 show a downward trend. The behavior of positivity in the last seven days shows that the curve of cases is going down.

Hospitalization of patients

The great results of the protection of the vaccines and the useful coverage that we have in Barranquilla are noticeable

Until this Monday, the indicator stood at 32.7 percent. Likewise, the hospital uses of patients with covid-19 decrease. The hospitalization of patients with a positive diagnosis for covid-19 is at 1.8 percent.

According to the UCI reports, there is evidence of lower data compared to the previous week. Only 8.9 percent of ICUs are occupied by covid-19 patients. The lethality reaches 0.29 percent, a figure lower than that estimated for this week.

“The great results of the protection of the vaccines and the useful coverage that we have in Barranquilla are noticeable. A hopeful and calm situation, but not to let our guard down, “said the district health secretary.

It must be remembered that, last week, the capital of the Atlantic was ratified as the city in Colombia that more dose applies of the covid-19 vaccine: 19,021 doses per 10,000 inhabitants, surpassing capitals such as Bogotá, Cali and Medellín.

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The availability of biological

Likewise, the city is a leader in vaccination of the child population, a milestone that generates confidence and peace of mind when returning to school.

According to the Ministry of Health, the 75 vaccination points They have all the biologicals available, including vaccination with booster doses or third doses in those over 18 years of age.

Barranquilla received last Sunday a batch of 222,000 doses from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, intended for booster doses in people over 18 years of age, second doses for young people from 12 to 17, and first and second doses in pregnant women over 12 weeks of gestation.

Given this scenario, the authorities maintain the self-care recommendations: vaccination with booster doses or third doses, correct use of face masks, frequent hand washing, keeping distance and caring for populations at risk.
 
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All the indicators of the pandemic continue to fall in Spain

The current week is being confirmed as that of the decline in the curve of the sixth wave of covid. All indicators of the pandemic continue to fall

Two women talk sitting on a bench in the streets of the Born neighborhood in Barcelona. EFE / Enric Fontcuberta

The falls are generalized in all the communities and in all the indicators.

The cases are already well below 100,000 daily, this Thursday 74,368 to a total of 10,199,716 infections since the coronavirus broke out almost two years ago.

The accumulated incidence, number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, registers considerable decreases; today 144 points and figure 2,420.

By communities, Catalonia, going down, is the one with the highest incidence (4,046).

Andalusia, the least affected in this sixth wave, has already dropped to 831.

By age groups, those under 11 years of age continue to lead but falling (4,569).

The lowest incidence is offered by the age group between 60 and 69 years (1,173).

Notable drop in hospital pressure

The number of patients with covid continues to fall both on the hospital floor and in the ICUs.

Today those admitted to the centers are 17,012 (13.5%), compared to 17,441 yesterday. A fall of more than 400 patients in one day.

Patients with SARS-CoV-2 in intensive care units drop below 2,000, since they number 1,947 (20.6%), while yesterday 2,010 were counted.

There is still a substantial number of daily entries. Today 1,722, but for days now the highs are clearly higher, this Thursday, 2,195.

PCR positivity continues to drop day by day, albeit slowly. If yesterday it was 35.3%, today it is 34.8%.

Deaths

Deaths don’t go down as clearly. Today there are 183 up to a total of 94,040, with a lethality that does not reach 1 percent.

Darias: Hipra will be “the European vaccine we were all waiting for”

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, assured this Thursday in Valencia that the Spanish Hipra vaccine, which has reached its last phase, “is going to be the vaccine, the European vaccine that we were all waiting for” against the coronavirus.

During an appearance before the media together with the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, after visiting the Clínic and Fe hospitals in Valencia, as well as the “vaccination center” installed in the City of Arts and Sciences, Darias stated regarding Hipra that it is “fantastic news to have a Spanish vaccine that is going very well” in the phases developed so far.

After recalling that the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has authorized its passage to phase 3, it has indicated that the results of the previous phases “are very encouraging in the generation of neutralizing antibodies.”

In this last phase, for which there are 3,000 volunteers (around 600 in the Clinical Hospital of Valencia), the safety and tolerability of the vaccine will be seen.

The minister affirms that the removal of outdoor masks “will be soon”

Carolina Darias, when asked when the masks will be removed outdoors, stated that “it will be soon” because in Spain “we are on the right track” and with the conditions to “relax measures”.

The minister has made this assessment after recalling the high rate of vaccination coverage in Spain, where 90.8 percent of those over 12 years of age have the full schedule and more than 90% of those over 60 years of age have the dose of reinforcement.

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, during the press conference after the visit of the vaccination device in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia. EFE/Biel Aliño

All the indicators of the sixth wave go down

The sixth wave seems to continue slowly in the declining phase and this Thursday all the epidemiological indicators show drops compared to yesterday: from the incidence of cases to the pressure in hospitals, infections and the number of deaths.

A health worker performs an antigen test on a woman during the population screening held in Ribadavia, in Ourense. EFE / Brais Lorenzo

The 14-day cumulative incidence drops 55 points from yesterday to 3,139 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and for the fourth consecutive day after reaching the record for the entire pandemic last Friday, 3,418 cases, although it is not yet possible to specify if the number has been reached. maximum peak of this sixth wave.

The 7-day cumulative incidence is also down, from 1,359 yesterday to 1,335 today.

Catalonia has the highest accumulated incidence 5,287 and Melilla is also above 5,000 cases.

Between 4,000 and 3,000 cases are Navarra, Murcia, Aragón, Cantabria and Valencia.

For age brackets, the incidence is low in all age groups except in those under 11 years of age who, up to 5 years of age, are in the process of vaccination and who register the highest rate of new infections 5,782/100,000 compared to 5,666 on Wednesday.

Catalonia registers the highest in Spain, with 11,667 cases per 100,000 children, and is followed in this age group by Aragón, Navarra, Cantabria or Ceuta, with incidences above 8,000 and in some cases bordering on 9,000 points.

The infections: 130,888

The Ministry of Health has notified 130,888 this Thursday, 2,665 less than yesterday.

Of these infections, 50,483 have a diagnosis date of yesterday and the rest are cases reported late.

The total number of infections since the start of the pandemic is 9,660,208.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests remains at 37.75% since yesterday.

The Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has indicated this Thursday in the Health Commission of the Congress of Deputies that it is being considered that the epidemiological data distinguish between hospitalized by covid and with covid, which now compute together, and once this new accounting in the system the next issue would be to do it with the deceased.

Darias has said that they are working on “advancing” in this distinction because it is not the same to be admitted for covid than to be hospitalized for an intervention for another pathology “and when performing a PCR, it is positive.”

Deaths: 176 more

This Thursday, the Ministry of Health has reported 176 more deaths in the last 24 hours.

This is the lowest figure this week after yesterday’s 215 deaths and Monday’s 253. It should be noted that 382 deaths were reported on Tuesday, a record number since the third wave, due to the fact that the Basque Country reported delayed deaths.

With date of death in the last 7 days there are 760 deceased.

The total number of deaths since there are records of deaths certified by tests in the pandemic in Spain is 92,767.

The global lethality is 1%.

Slow decline in hospital occupancy

The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (plant and ICU) is 18,548, 257 less since yesterday, and drops from 15% extreme risk to 14.85%, high risk.

The occupancy of the ICUs continues to drop and is at 22.16% with 2,099 patients, 53 less than yesterday.

Catalonia continues to lead the occupation by covid in the critical units, 41%, while Aragón is at 31% and the Balearic Islands and Melilla at 29%.

A year ago, a different epidemiological situation

Just a year ago, on January 27, 2021, the peak of the third wave was reached (899 cases per 100,000) and a record until the arrival, in December, of the omicron variant that has triggered infections, the vast majority mild.

The epidemiological situation then was very different: in full rise, 40,285 positives and 492 more deaths were reported in 24 hours.

The ICUs exceeded the extreme risk with 41.90% of beds occupied by 4,515 patients, while in the hospitals (floor and ICU) there were 30,789 patients, 24% occupancy.