The Ministry of Health has recorded 58,561 new positives and 473 deaths since Friday
Four days after the last report from the Ministry of Health (there were no updates over the weekend or on Monday, due to technical problems), the data published this Tuesday corroborated the positive trend of recent weeks. The accumulated incidence continues the decline that began on January 21, although now it falls at a slower rate, and stood at 515.10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within 14 days, 98 less than the last working day of last week and at edge of abandoning very high risk. Forecasts also suggest that the decline will continue. The incidence at seven days is found in the 207 cases, less than 50% of that of 14.
Six communities and the two autonomous cities are already below 500 cases in 14 days, which in the ‘covid traffic light’ draw the line between high risk and very high risk. The Balearic Islands have an incidence of 446 cases; the Basque Country, 432; Ceuta, 421; Andalusia, 333; Madrid, 320; Castilla-La Mancha, 302, and the national minimum is set by Melilla, with 252 cases, about to move to the next level, that of medium risk. On the other hand, the maximum is registered in Galicia, with 825 cases, followed by the Canary Islands, with 780, and Murcia, with 736.
In its new update, the department of Carolina Darias reported 58,561 positives for coronavirus since Friday, which leads Spain to overcome a new symbolic border, that of the 11 million infected since the start of the pandemic. Specifically, 11,036,085 positives have already been registered, according to official Health statistics, although the real number of infected is much higher.
And on the edge of another tragic barrier were the deaths. The ministry has computed 473 deaths in these four days, so that the total number of deaths from covid since March 2020, with a positive test, is already at 99,883 people.
Where the situation improves day by day is in hospitals. Currently, 6,478 patients are hospitalized in Spain for covid and of these, 962 remain in intensive care. The bed occupancy rate due to coronavirus stands at 5.23% (5.84% on Friday) and 10.47% (11.38%) in ICUs.
Another indicator that gradually returns to normality is that of positivity in the tests. 17.18% of the tests carried out are positive, a figure that has left the records of the sixth wave far behind, but still above the 5% that the WHO considers as the level at which infections are controlled.