Omikron continues to expand in Europe. The number of new infections in Spain has now risen faster than ever before. However, the infected usually show mild symptoms of the disease.
Madrid – In Spain, the number of new infections has risen by almost 50,000 within one day, the highest level ever since the pandemic began. The seven-day incidence jumped to 424 after 377 the previous day, the Ministry of Health in Madrid announced on Tuesday.
94 other people died in connection with Corona. The new Omikron variant already accounts for 80 percent of all new infections in Madrid, wrote the newspaper “El País”.
Almost as high as now, the number of infections was last in January. The big difference to the situation at the time is that since then more than 80 percent of people in Spain have received basic immunization by being vaccinated twice or once with Johnson & Johnson. Most of those infected therefore show no or only mild symptoms of the disease. The number of corona patients treated in intensive care units was given as 1472, 30 more than the previous day. They thus occupied 15.77 percent of all capacities in this area.
Rejection of stricter corona rules
Most of the Spanish autonomous communities, which roughly correspond to German federal states, and the central government are reluctant to significantly tighten the corona measures. Only Catalonia announced the closure of nightlife, night exit restrictions as well as restrictions on the occupancy of restaurants and leisure facilities and the number of participants in private meetings. However, this has yet to be confirmed by the judiciary.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez plans to hold a video conference on Wednesday afternoon with the presidents of the autonomous communities to discuss measures to contain the pandemic. dpa
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