Infections, incidence and positivity rate increase during the weekend
The situation of the pandemic in Spain, while still positive, begins to offer adverse signals. The statistics of the Ministry of Health published this Monday show an increase in the number of infections, the accumulated incidence and also deaths compared to the previous week.
In fact, in this last indicator, a new barrier is now surpassed, that of 87,000 deaths. Covid-19 has already left 87,030 deaths in Spain, according to official data, when counting 56 new deaths on Saturday and Sunday (42 were registered the previous weekend).
Incidence, meanwhile, continues to grow. Once the downward trend that began on July 27 was broken on Friday, this rate grows by almost two points over the weekend and stands at 42.51 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days. It also increases the incidence to seven days, which rises to 20.69 cases, and allows us to predict that the incidence to fourteen will continue to grow in the coming days, as another index points out, the positivity rate per hundred test, which increases from 2.18% to 2.23%.
And that is due to an increase in new infections. The Health Ministry added 4,492 during Saturday and Sunday, up from 3,829 the previous weekend. The total number of infected since the beginning of the pandema is 4,988,878.
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