The King of Spain International Journalism Prizes on Wednesday recognized the work of Spanish and Portuguese journalists across Latin America and their important coverage of social movements, the environment and humanitarian work.
The report “The broken promise: the collapse of social security in Venezuela” published on the Prodavinci news site won the prize for International Cooperation and Humanitarian Action Journalism.
Photographer César Luis Melgarejo Aponte scooped the International Photography Journalism award for his photograph “Resistir” (“Resist”) published in Colombia’s El Tiempo newspaper.
The report “The Assassination of the president of Haiti” broadcast on Colombian TV program Noticias Caracol won the Narrative Journalism Award “for sharing exclusive information about the assassination of Jovenel Moise in 2021”.
Spanish non-profit organization Civio was awarded with the Ibero-American Media award for its work based on “transparency, data veracity and accountability”.
The report “Daughter of Cotton: A Profile of Cristina Rivera Garza”, published in the Mexican magazine Gatopardo, was awarded with the Cultural Journalism prize “for its ability to reflect on the contribution of Hispanics to the creation of the culture of the United States .”
Finally, the Environmental Journalism award was given to the report “Engolindo Fumaça” (“Swallowing Smoke”) on the health effects of forest fires published in InfoAmazonia of Brazil.
Created by Spain’s news agency EFE and the country’s agency for international cooperation and development (AECID) in 1983, the annual media awards recognize some of the leading work done by Spanish and Portuguese-speaking journalists.
The jury for this 39th edition of the prize ceremony selected media outlets and reporters from 17 Ibero-American countries spanning topics ranging from humanitarian, social, cultural and environmental. EFE
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.
Spain offers 5,000 hospital beds to Ukraine
Spain has offered Ukraine, in the midst of the war over the invasion of Russia, 5,000 hospital beds in all the autonomous communities and medical supplies, medicines and respirators in coordination with the European Union.
The Spanish contribution exceeds that of the surrounding European countries in a gesture of “solidarity” with Ukraine in “times of difficulty and unity”, announced the Minister of Health.
Thursday, February 24, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has participated tonight in Brussels in the extraordinary European Council to address the military invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, during which he has held a videoconference with the Ukrainian President, Volodímir Zelenski.
The Heads of State and Government have agreed on a new package of sanctions against the Russian Federation for the attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, a neighboring country and, as Pedro Sánchez highlighted, “an attack on the security of the entire European continent”. This is a second package of restrictive measures after the one adopted last Tuesday, February 22.
The President of the Government has underlined: “The situation is very serious. We are facing a flagrant violation of international law that we cannot accept. And the EU must respond along the lines that we have been maintaining in recent weeks: Unity, which is the basis of our strength; and firmness in our position, open to dialogue and diplomatic channels, but very willing to adopt harsh restrictive measures, if Russia opted for force, as it has been».
The Spanish Embassy in Kiev has been in contact for weeks with Spanish residents in Ukraine to provide them with available information on possible evacuation routes. Of the more than 400 Spaniards registered at the Embassy, more than a hundred are already in Spain. In this sense, President Sánchez has guaranteed that the necessary help will be provided to the Spaniards who still remain in Ukraine, just over 200.
Pedro Sánchez has recalled that Spain is a country of solidarity and has highlighted the need for the European Union to prepare for the humanitarian consequences arising from this aggression. “We reiterate our support and solidarity with the Ukrainian people and government at this difficult time. Spain and the European partners are by your side”, stated the Chief Executive.
EU sanctions on Russia
The extraordinary European Council, during the videoconference held with the Ukrainian president, Volodímir Zelenski Moncloa/European Union and Fernando CalvoPedro Sánchez, highlighted that, in this extraordinary European Council, additional restrictive measures have been reached “that we want them to have, as we have come pointing out, a forceful and massive effects against the Russian economy». And all of this, as the president highlighted, has been done “in close coordination with our transatlantic partners, our NATO allies and other international actors.”
The 27 have agreed on a new package of sanctions on Russia that complements those approved on Tuesday. The list of individual sanctions is extended and the sectoral ones are expanded, with restrictive measures that will further reduce the financing capacity of Russian public and private institutions, limiting movements, transactions and deposits and establishing a strict control of exports, in particular of dual-use and technological material.
“This aggression is a frontal attack on European principles and values that opens a multidimensional crisis. Today, we European leaders have reaffirmed our common commitment to confront this clear violation of the international order on the basis of our unity and firmness”, concluded the President of the Government.
The Fundació Puigvert has successfully performed the first two surgeries in Spain with a new state-of-the-art surgical robot, one of the most advanced in the world with this healthcare technology
A moment of the intervention of the HUGO surgical robot at the Fundació Puigvert/Courtesy photo
With this double surgery, performed on patients with prostate cancer and kidney cancer, this Foundation has become the second hospital in Europe to perform an operation with this system, and one of the first in the world, this health center has reported.
The new surgical robot, called HUGO and developed by Medtronic, introduces an open console, portability, artificial intelligence and a modular design for the first time in a system of its kind, while improving precision and ergonomics.
This robot guarantees patients the advantages of minimally invasive surgery, with fewer complications and less recovery time after the intervention, according to its creators.
Dr. Joan Palou, director of the Urology Service of the Fundació Puigvert, highlights the “solvency and functionality” of the new robot.
The urologist affirms that, although the new tool will allow all types of intervention, it stands out in “some surgeries in which scientific evidence shows that the advantages are unquestionable, such as radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer or partial nephrectomy for kidney cancer, first two operations that we have carried out successfully”.
The technology of this robot has a mobile system that allows it to be moved easily inside and outside the operating room.
In a complementary way, it incorporates artificial intelligence to record the interventions and make a selection of the key moments of the surgery automatically.
Currently, robotic surgery is used in only 3 percent of procedures in the world.
Dr. Alberto Breda, head of the Urology Oncology Unit and the Renal Transplant Surgical Team, stresses: “Surgeons want to operate with robotic surgery because it has been shown to be the best way, and it offers clear advantages for patients, such as decrease in bleeding, postoperative pain and days of hospitalization».
“The ideal scenario, and the one posed by the arrival of HUGO and the rest that will arrive, is that it will stop being done only in selected cases, like now, to be done routinely,” adds Dr. Breda, president of the robotic surgery section of the European Society of Urology.
Despite advances in medical technology over the past decade, cost and availability barriers have put robotic-assisted surgery out of reach for many hospitals and, consequently, patients, notes the Puigvert Foundation.
The Center for Biomedical Research Network (CIBER) together with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) have agreed to establish a centralized information system on cancer in Spain. Its objective is to obtain a complete vision of this disease throughout the State
The CIBER in collaboration with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) will launch this registry, called the Cancer Epidemiological Information System (SIEC), which will systematize and unify the main epidemiological indicators of cancer in Spain.
In this way, rigorous and official data on this disease can be offered to make decisions at the level of the autonomous community, or even province.
The portal is planned to be available by the end of 2022.
Since the arrival of the coronavirus in March 2020, the world has been involved in momentous political, social and economic changes. However, other diseases, including cancer, continue to rise.
Updated and complete information
In the note in which the CIBER and the AECC recently announced this agreement, it was stated that “the SIEC will facilitate epidemiological monitoring, unify sources that are difficult to access, and build official indicators that have not been available until now.”
This cancer registry will work from data from Spanish population registries that are accredited by the International Agency on Cancer.
The user will be able to find statistics on epidemiological risk indicators of a geographical, temporal and demographic nature on the incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence of cancer.
This will be completed with informative information on risk and protective factors for the different types of tumors. In addition, a glossary on epidemiological surveillance will be included to understand the most important terms about cancer.
From these data, researchers will be able to establish the survival rate of cancer types over time or possible geographical variations, among other things.
Marina Pollán, director of the National Center for Epidemiology of the Carlos III Health Institute and CIBERESP, points out that “in Spain there is no single national cancer registry, although there are various initiatives in this regard that provide information -such as the Spanish Network of Cancer Registries (REDACAN) or the ARIADNA epidemiological information system of the National Epidemiology Center of the ISCIII”.
This expert adds that “it is necessary to have a quality information system at a national level with updated, integrated and as disaggregated as possible information on the burden of cancer in Spain”.
plan to prevent
María José Sánchez, coordinator of the Cancer Surveillance Subprogram at CIBERESP, explains to EFEsalud that “knowing these statistics is key to being able to make decisions, act quickly and avoid territorial inequalities in health protection.”
“This portal will allow us to know the temporal trends of prevalence and survival. We are going to see if this survival for the types of cancer improves over time or if there are geographical variations between the different Autonomous Communities. If we observe important differences, another series of studies would have to be considered to see the reason for these variations in the indicators”, he affirms.
Diego de Haro, responsible for the program at the Spanish Association Against Canceradds that it is a “very innovative project that will also help to develop a plan for the different benefits and services that public administrations have to provide”.
In Spain, as in other European countries, there are 14 consolidated registries on the incidence of cancer. These are known as population-based tumor registries, as is the case with the ARIADNA project.
However, from the CIBER they detail that “all these registries are provincial and until now only between 20 and 30% of the Spanish population are being registered in a real and direct way”.
For this reason, the new portal will make it possible to collect updated data that can be extrapolated to the entire Spanish population and make precise estimates for each territory.
A cancer registry open to all
The new page will be available to the scientific community and the general population. Its purpose is that any patient, relative or interested person can access without special permissions and learn the reality about cancer.
Diego de Haro recalls that this is a “fundamental aspect, a platform accessible to everyone and with the main indicators”.
Although the individualized databases cannot be downloaded nor can a researcher upload their information, it can be used to schedule new analyses. This will allow you to see the indicators according to age ranges or sex.
Image of the Salud Sin Hoaxes website
The cancer pandemic
Especially in the first wave of the coronavirus screening programs of cancer stopped their activity due to the health crisis.
Also, many research projects and laboratories had to close, thus experiencing delays in many cases.
Added to this was the fear of the general population to go to the doctor due to the virus, which made it difficult to make cancer diagnoses.
María José Sánchez points out that “we must be clear that there is a cancer pandemic because more cases are being diagnosed, so it continues to be a public health problem and we must not get lost.”
However, he specifies that “the health system is making an effort to cover all cancer patients so that their diagnosis and treatment have no consequences.”
BOGOTA COLOMBIA). Friday, February 18, 2022 (RPTV NEWS AGENCY). To eradicate the power of this criminal group, a rigorous international work team was created led by the Civil Guard, in which the US agency DEA, EUROPOL, the Brazilian Federal Police and the Belgian Federal Police have participated, all under the direction of the Central Court of Instruction No. 1 of the National High Court
They are held responsible for the introduction into our country of more than 4 tons of cocaine, all of them intervened by the Civil Guard in Spain, coming from countries such as Colombia, Brazil and Ecuador.
Overall, in all the actions carried out in the different countries involved, 28 people have been arrested, several of them High Value Targets (HVT) for EUROPOL, as well as the apprehension of more than 8 tons of cocaine
Dismantled an international criminal organization responsible for the introduction of tons of cocaine into Europe through different Spanish ports
The Civil Guard, within the framework of the TURIA operation, has managed to dismantle one of the most active criminal organizations with regard to the introduction of large consignments of narcotics through the main Spanish seaports destined for Europe.
The investigation began more than a year ago, when the Civil Guard, through its Central Operational Unit (UCO), focused its efforts on the criminal activity of the main ports of our country, given the proliferation of different seizures of cocaine, Many of them follow the same criminal pattern.
In this way, already in April of last year, the Organized Crime Teams (ECOs) of the Central Operational Unit based in Alicante and Pontevedra, prevented the departure of 300 kilograms of cocaine from the Port of Valencia, proceeding to the arrest of 3 people, who, using a vehicle authorized to operate in that port, extracted the described substance from a container, hidden in a container coming from Brazil by the well-known method of “blind hook” or “lost hook”.
Ambitious international police operation.
As a result of this intervention and all the information obtained from it and other previous ones, an ambitious international police operation was launched, with the full involvement of the Civil Guard together with the Brazilian, North American and Belgian authorities, as well as EUROPOL.
During this time, all the participating Bodies and Agencies have managed to create a rigorous work team through several coordination meetings in different countries, which has allowed them to meet and identify the main leaders of this important criminal network, from Dubai ( UAE) to Brazil, as well as the seizure, in different interventions, of more than 3,900 kilograms of cocaine in Spain alone, all of them carried out by the Civil Guard within this work team.
TURIA-TURFE operation; Simultaneous performances in Spain and Brazil
In this way, this very week the final phase of this important operation has been carried out, acting simultaneously and in a coordinated manner in Spain and Brazil, for which UCO agents have been transferred to that country, as well as Brazilian agents and EUROPOL have done it to Spain, achieving the total dismantling of the investigated organization.
As far as Spain is concerned, 7 people related to these events have been arrested, 4 of them in the province of Barcelona in 5 searches carried out, 400 kilograms of cocaine having been seized in an industrial warehouse inside a maritime container coming from Brazil and arriving at the port of Barcelona. In addition, as a result of one of the searches, an indoor marijuana plantation with more than 300 plants has been intervened, as well as several high-end vehicles, encrypted mobile phone devices of great interest for research, jewelry and the blocking of more than 20 bank accounts of different companies linked to this criminal group, created to facilitate the importation of drugs and the transfer of money.
High Value Targets for Europol (HVT)
Simultaneously, the Brazilian Federal Police, in what they have called operation TURFE and in which agents from the Central Operational Unit transferred to that country for that purpose have participated, have proceeded to carry out 30 house searches, producing in some of them intense exchanges of fire with the police, as well as the arrest of 20 people, among which are several High Value Targets (HVT) for the European agency.
The operation has been carried out by the Civil Guard through its Organized Crime Teams (ECO’s) and the Central Anti-Drug Group, both belonging to the Central Operational Unit, together with the US DEA, the Brazilian Federal Police and from Belgium also EUROPOL, all directed by the Central Investigating Court number 1 and the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor’s Office, both of the National High Court.
Week after week, the sixth wave of covid in Spain continues to fall sharply in all the indicators that mark the evolution of the pandemic, but not deaths, more than 2,000 in the last seven days
A health worker attends to a covid patient in a hospital in Rome. EFE/EPA/GIUSEPPE LAMI
The cumulative incidence of the coronavirus continues to fall in this sixth wave.
This Friday, with infections down (30,615), the incidence drops 65 points and stands at 919 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The total number of infected since the pandemic began amounts to 10,809,222.
This week there have been just over 200,000 new cases, while the previous week this data was close to 330,000 thousand infections in seven days.
In this week, the incidence has gone from 1,461 on Friday, February 11, to 919 today. Over 500 drop points.
By communities there are nine that fall below 1,000, with Andalusia in the lower range (471) and Galicia marking the maximum figure (1,500).
By age groups, it is young people between 12 and 19 years of age who record the peak incidence (1,370), with people between 60 and 69 registering the minimum (565).
pressure in hospitals
In hospitals, satisfactorily, the pressure drops sharply due to the number of patients with covid.
Last Friday, 12,843 patients (10.3%) had been admitted; today the data is 9,742 (7.8%). They are 3,101 less in seven days.
And less than 10,000 patients had not been in health centers since the last days of last December.
In intensive care units, last Friday there were 1,588 infected with SARS-CoV-2 with a serious prognosis (16.9%), while today there are 1,284, 304 less with a percentage of 13.7.
Other data
The patients admitted for covid in the last 24 hours have been 869, compared to 1,346 discharges.
The positivity by PCR is today 23 percent, 6.5 points less than last Friday (29.4%).
Deaths
The positive of the data throughout this month of February does not translate, sadly, into the numbers of people killed by covid.
In the last 24 hours, 288 people have died from coronavirus, and in the last week 2,003.
The previous week the number of deaths was 1,760, so this indicator, for the moment, continues to rise.
So far in February, the number of deaths from covid rises to 4,365, in 18 days.
The official total death toll from the pandemic is 97,998, not far from 100,000.
The Minister of Health Carolina Darías, during the press conference after the meeting of the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System, this Wednesday, February 16, at the Palacio de la Moncloa, in Madrid. EFE/Rodrigo Jimenez
Every February 15 marks the International Day of Children with Cancer. In Spain there are about a thousand cases per year between 0 and 14 years. Survival exceeds 80 percent. Survival is much lower in developing countries, WHO reports
Children’s drawings of children with cancer on a board at the Pereira Rossell Pediatric Hospital in Montevideo, Uruguay. EFE/Ivan Franco
Cancer of the penis is a tumor that can carry a great risk for the male reproductive system. This affects 8 out of every 100,000 men in the world, with Spain being the country with the highest incidence in Europe.
Cancer of the penis is a tumor with a lower prevalence compared to other types of cancer of the male reproductive system such as prostate and testicular cancer.
East affects 8 out of every 100,000 men in the world, being diagnosed around 450 new cases a year in Spain.
The highest incidence in the world is found in Brazil. Interestingly, according to the European Urology guidelines, the highest incidence of penile cancer in Europe is found in our countrymore specifically in the province of Albacete.
The age at which penile cancer usually debuts is variable, but the peak incidence usually occurs around the sixth decade of life.
To learn more about penile cancer we have spoken with the Dr. Borja García, specialist in urology at the private clinic ROC Clinic.
How is it diagnosed?
“The diagnosis is eminently clinical,” says the doctor. There are no blood markers and it is not usual to use imaging tests, although there are cases in which it is used to rule out metastasis.
A specialist physically analyzes the patient, perceiving whether the lesion on the penis is cancer or not. You can also use a PET, a non-invasive diagnostic technique that allows you to take images of the patient’s body that show the activity and metabolism of the body’s organs.
“In some cases it will be necessary to confirm with a biopsy. In other cases, the treatment, which is exeresis, will give us the diagnosis»
reports the urologist.
There are different subtypes of penile cancer depending on the cells that produce it.
The most common is squamous cell carcinoma, which comprises around 50-60% of cases of penile cancer.
What are your symptoms and your risk?
The symptoms are usually quite obvious, according to the doctor.
“Any abnormality that appears on the penis, any red or cauliflower-like lesion should be evaluated by a specialist to rule out penile cancer”
advise.
The penis is made up of various types of tissue and the type of cancer depends on the type of cell where it develops.
90% of penile cancers usually develop through squamous cells that can appear anywhere on the penis, being more common areas such as the glans or the foreskin.
Precancerous lesion of the penis. Photo courtesy of ROC Clinic.
This type of cancer can be very dangerous if not detected early. An early diagnosis allows “treatment to be less aggressive and simpler, as well as more effective,” the expert tells us.
“Penis cancer partially responds to radiotherapy, but when the tumor is very extensive, chemo systems do not respond well. If it is diagnosed early, survival rates will be high, otherwise they will fall drastically”
points out the specialist.
How can it be prevented?
In cases of phimosis, which prevent full exposure of the glans, inflammations are formed that in the long term favor the appearance of penile cancerbeing “circumcision the best way to prevent it,” says the expert.
What is your treatment?
This tumor has a slow growth, reason why it is necessary to go to exploration before any symptom that allows diagnosing it to eliminate it in time.
“Treatment is usually its exeresis, the removal of it with margins. We must make sure that there is healthy adjacent tissue so that the tumor does not progress and is completely eliminated”
explains Borja Garcia.
Depending on the situation and the characteristics of the cancer of the penis that is suffered, and its size and its progress, there are different treatments.
“We have surgeries depending on where you are located. If it is on the foreskin, a circumcision may be enough and if it is on the glans, amputations of the glans may be necessary.”
points out the specialist in urology.
In the case of a more superficial tumor «conservative treatments are usually resorted to, such as CO2 laser or mucosal exeresis with which the mucosa is replaced with a skin graft to give the penis a much more normal appearance ».
What is reconstructive surgery?
Urination is also affected in this surgery. Depending on the case, different interventions can be made.
According to the specialist, in the event that it is not possible to preserve the urethra, or to perform a neourethra in the neophallus (new penis after amputation), “it is resorted to opening it below the testicles, forcing the patient to urinate sitting down since the hole is behind the testicles.”
“In other cases, a new urethra can be made in that graft, allowing the patient to urinate exactly as if he had the original penis”
indicates the doctor.
What happens to fertility and sexuality after penile cancer?
Before surgery, it is possible to preserve semen before the intervention or extract it later “accessing the testicles with a biopsy and extracting the semen from them”.
In the case of sexuality, this will depend on the degree of cancer and surgery that is performed.
Although penile cancer is a rare tumor, its symptoms must be known, since early diagnosis plays an important role. As well as the role played by prevention, since part of these tumors arise from the root of avoidable causes.
In this last week, all the indicators of the sixth wave of covid in Spain have continued to fall, but not so the deaths, today again almost 400
Several people walk through a street in the center of Oviedo. EFE/JL Cereijido/File
In this second week of February, the sixth wave has continued in strong remission, with a clear decrease in daily cases, a decrease in the accumulated incidence, as well as in hospital pressure and positivity by PCR, but this has not happened with deaths , yesterday and today very close to 400 daily.
High death toll
In the last week, 1,760 deaths from covid have been recorded, and since last February 1, 2,362. It is a very high number in full decline of the sixth wave.
The daily average of deaths so far in February exceeds 200 deaths, in the last 24 hours 389, with a total official figure since the pandemic broke out of 95,995.
Indicators of the evolution of the pandemic fall sharply
All the indicators that offer data on the evolution of the pandemic in this sixth wave have continued to fall in the last 24 hours, and the balance of the weekly sum is in the same direction.
Cases and cumulative incidence
The new infections today have been 49,004, reaching a total number of cases of 10,604,200.
The weekly average of cases has been around 47,000, well below the January records, with daily figures well above 100,000.
The accumulated incidence, number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants, has fallen another 105 points today, and stands at 1,461, with a decrease of 838 points compared to last Friday, February 4, when it stood at 2,299.
There are three communities below 1,000 cases of cumulative incidence: Andalucía (583), Canarias (617) and Madrid (960).
There are five regions above 2,000: Murcia (2,189), Cantabria (2,183), Catalonia (2,127), Galicia (2,091) and the Valencian Community (2,041).
The rest are between 1,000 and 2,000 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, all going down.
By age groups, the decline continues, with those under 11 years of age at the maximum figure (2,288) and people between 60 and 69 years of age, the lowest count (821).
Strong drop in hospital pressure
Covid patients admitted to hospitals are strongly reduced.
Today the number of patients admitted to the plant is 12,843 (10.3%), compared to 13,623 yesterday (10.9%), but last Friday this figure rose to 16,326 (13%), which represents a decrease of sick by covid in hospitals in a week of almost 4,000 (3,843).
In the ucis the decrease is also notable. This Friday 1,588 (16.9%) are recorded compared to 1,633 yesterday (17.4%); last Friday the figure registered was 1,880 (20%). The drop in seven days is 292 fewer covid patients in the intensive care units of Spanish hospitals.
Other data
PCR positivity also continues to decline. Today it stands at 29.4 percent, and a week ago at 33.9 percent.
Patient admissions to hospitals on the last day are 1,210, compared to 1,873 discharges. Another positive fact.
Stop covid infections in the world by slowing down the growth rate. EFE/EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON
The sixth wave of covid continues its decline and hospital pressure falls sharply day by day, but deaths from the coronavirus remain high, today almost 400
Image of the SARS-COV-2 coronavirus. Courtesy photo
We start today with the hospital pressure of covid.
The number of patients in health centers stands at 13,623 (10.9%), 817 less than yesterday (14,440).
In the ICUs, today there are 1,633 patients with SARS-CoV-2 (17.4%), while the data yesterday was 1,700. They are 67 less.
Cumulative incidence
The accumulated incidence falls another 126 points and drops to 1,566, maintaining the trend of recent weeks, and the number of cases in the last day is 53,055, up to a total of 10,555,196 infected since the pandemic began.
By region, Cantabria has the highest incidence (2,371) and Andalusia the lowest (591).
By age groups, it is those under 11 years of age who continue with the highest incidence figure (2,531) and people between 60 and 60 years of age the lowest (865).
Deaths
The most negative figure in the evolution of the sixth wave of covid is deaths. On the last day 393, up to an official total since the pandemic began of 95,606.
In the line of the last weeks, the admissions for covid are much less than the discharges.
Admissions are 1,180 and discharges 1,938, including that of actor Antonio Resines, after more than a month and a half admitted, much of that time in the ICU.
PCR positivity continues to decline, although it is still above 30 percent.
From this Thursday, February 10, thanks to the good evolution of the sixth wave, masks are not mandatory on the street.
Two women walk down the street, with and without masks. EFE/David Aguilar
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 Spanish Fernando Verdasco, the Argentines Federico Coria and Francisco Cerúndolo and the Serbs Miomir Kecmanovic and Dusan Lajovic qualified this Monday for the round of 16 of the Argentine Open, the ATP 250 that is played in Buenos Aires and ends on Sunday.
Verdasco beat Bolivian Hugo Dellien 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
The European Commission will present a plan tomorrow with which it plans to mobilize up to 48,000 million euros so that the European Union quadruples its production of semiconductors until 2030 and can ensure the supply of some components for which it now depends on Asian manufacturers.
“Today 50% of semiconductors are produced in Taiwan. If for one reason or another Taiwan couldn’t export them, it would only take three weeks for almost all the factories we have – automobiles, meat, electrical appliances – to stop working, because they would not have semiconductors. This is not acceptable, we have to equip ourselves with the capacity to respond to this eventuality,” the European Commissioner for the Single Market, Thierry Breton, told Efe on Monday.
The Martinelli Linares brothers, sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Marinelli, have paid $697,458 as part of the plea agreement reached with the New York Prosecutor’s Office last December, when they admitted to having laundered $28 million and made bribes in favor of of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Luis Enrique and Ricardo Alberto, who are awaiting the reading of the sentence, scheduled for this spring, in a New York prison, will have to pay a fine of 19 million dollars and could spend up to a maximum of 20 years in prison.
The United States and the European Union (EU) criticized Russia on Monday for using the energy supply to Europe as a geopolitical “weapon” for which they promised to intensify cooperation amid tensions with Moscow over the concentration of troops in the border with Ukraine.
This was stated by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, at the start of the bilateral Energy Council in Washington.
Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen arrived at the English club Brentford’s training camp on Monday for the first time since his transfer was made official, reached on the last day of the transfer market last January.
Eriksen joins the club seven months after he suffered a cardiac arrhythmia during his team’s match against Finland at Euro 2020.
The Spanish Ander Mirambell marked the times twenty and twenty-first in the two official skeleton training sessions at the Beijing Olympic Games,
The Catalan rider set a time of 1:02.96 on his first run, by 1:00.42 of the German Christopher Grotheer, who was also the fastest on the second descent, 1:00.79, in which Mirambell did 1:03.02, twenty-first record .
The Swiss Beat Feuz was proclaimed Olympic downhill champion by winning the queen event of alpine skiing at the Beijing 2022 Games on Monday, which was held on the demanding Yanqing track, in which Frenchman Johan Clarey captured the silver medal – with 41 years – and the Austrian Matthias Mayer, the bronze.
Feuz, 34, winner of the last four editions of the World Cup of the discipline and world champion in front of his fans in St. Moritz 2017, covered the 3,152 meters of the colorful ‘Rock’ track -starting at 2,179 meters of altitude and a drop of 894- in one minute, 42 seconds and 69 hundredths, one tenth less than Clarey, who, at 41, became the oldest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing history.
One of the four immigrants of North African origin who has managed to jump the border fence between Spain and Morocco in Melilla has had to be rescued by the Fire Department and the Civil Guard after being trapped for hours in a drain pipe, when trying to flee from the agents.
Sources from the Government Delegation in Melilla have reported that, after the jump over the fence, which occurred around 9:15 a.m., the four North Africans who entered the city ran down the bed of the Arroyo Mezquita, in one of the whose drain pipes one of them was introduced.
