Health has notified this Monday 6,417 cases and 54 deaths from covid over the weekend
The autonomous communities have notified the Ministry of Health on Monday 6,417 new cases of COVID-19, 725 of them diagnosed during the weekend.
The total number of infections in Spain has now risen to 5,032,056 since the start of the pandemic, according to official statistics. The cumulative incidence in the last 14 days per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 58.57, compared to 53.77 on Friday. In the past two weeks, a total of 27,793 positives have been registered.
In this Monday’s report, 54 new deaths have been added. Up to 87,558 people with a positive diagnostic test have died since the virus arrived in Spain, according to data collected by the Ministry. In the last week, 46 people with a confirmed positive covid-19 diagnosis have died in Spain.
Currently, there are 1,858 patients admitted for covid-19 throughout Spain (1,793 on Friday) and 400 in the ICU (386 on Friday). In the last 24 hours, there have been 191 admissions (217 on Friday) and 89 discharges (192 on Friday). The occupancy rate for beds occupied by coronavirus stands at 1.52 percent (1.45% on Friday) and in ICUs at 4.41 percent (4.23% on Friday).
Between October 29 and November 4, the autonomous communities have carried out 506,631 diagnostic tests, of which 306,325 have been PCR and 200,306 antigen tests, with an overall rate per 100,000 inhabitants of 1,077.34.
Meanwhile, the positivity rate stands at 3.22 percent, down from 2.79 percent on Friday. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that this figure be below 5 percent to consider the spread of the virus as ‘controlled’.
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