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.

Low incidence of coronavirus and slight rebound in hospitals

The incidence of coronavirus has fallen again since last Friday, 37 points less to 3,381. After the weekend, 253 more deaths and 305,432 infections are reported, which means that the accumulated total now exceeds nine million in Spain. Almost a thousand more patients are registered in hospitals.

Analysis of an antigen test. EFE/Ramon de la Rocha

After the 14-day cumulative incidence record of this sixth wave of the pandemic in Spain, which was reached last Friday with 3,418 cases per 100,000, and after three days of consecutive drops, today it drops again to 3,381.

These undulations mean that it is not yet possible to determine whether the peak of this sixth wave has been reached.

The 7-day cumulative incidence shows a rise of 30 points since last Friday, from 1,456 to 1,486 cases per 100,000.

The omicron variant has been causing an increase in infections since the beginning of December, although there are autonomous communities such as Madrid or Andalusia that were not reporting the positive cases detected in the home environment, so the number of those affected could be higher.

There are autonomous communities that continue to rise, such as Catalonia, which reaches 5,402 cases/100,000, or the Valencian Community with 4,005, while those that are at the head of the incidence, such as Aragón, Murcia, Navarra or the Basque Country, are declining.

By age groups, those under 11 years of age are at the head (5,248 cases/100,000) and at the other extreme are the age group between 70 and 79 years (1,555).

Contagions: more than 9 million cases in Spain

Since there are records of coronavirus cases in Spain, the first was detected on January 31, 2020, this Monday the nine million barrier is exceeded, specifically 9,280,890, of which almost 50% of them have produced during the sixth wave that began in November.

After the weekend, a total of 305,432 cases are reported in three days, 101,810 per day.

Compared to the previous Monday, January 17, that number was 331,467, down 26,035 in a week.

The positivity rate of diagnostic tests continues to decline since last Friday (38%) to 37.39% today.

Mortality: 253 more deaths

This Monday, the Ministry of Health has reported 253 more deaths since last Friday.

With date of death in the last 7 days there are 573 deceased.

The total number of deaths since there are records of deaths certified by evidence in the pandemic in Spain is 91,994.

The global lethality is 1%.

Slight uptick in hospitals

After the weekend there has been a slight upturn in hospital occupancy.

The total number of patients admitted to hospitals (plant and ICU) is 19,617, 942 more since last Friday, 15.76% (14.96% last Friday).

In the ucis there are 2,261 covid patients, 59 more since Friday, occupying 23.94 of the beds (23.25% on Friday).

For two weeks, the occupancy of ICU beds has remained at 23%, high risk, with slight ups and downs.

Catalonia remains at the head of employment and rises to 43.30%, while Aragon, the Balearic Islands and Melilla are above 30%.

vaccinations

70.5% of people over 40 years of age already have the booster dose, while 70% have already received the single-dose booster from Janssen and 81.9 from AstraZeneca, 19.6 million people.

The last groups to join the third dose still have low percentages, that is, 11.4% from 20 to 29 years old have been inoculated and 19.1% from 30 to 39 years old.

53% of children between the ages of 5 and 11 have been vaccinated with one dose, a total of 1.7 million of the 3.3 million target population since the campaign began on December 15.

In Spain, 90.7% of the population over 12 years of age has received the full course of the covid vaccine, 38.2 million people.