Incidence continues to decline in Spain, to half of that recorded in Portugal
“All the data indicate that we have exceeded the peak” of the current incidence of Covid-19, said the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, while calling for prudence regarding the end of the sixth wave of the pandemic.
Darias that in the current version, vacancy dominated by Ómicron, can sometimes be a variation of a major third, plus seven, which occurred in relation to the vacancy, which occurred in a year, “hospitalization, ICU [unidades de cuidado intensivos] and deaths are much lower.”
This difference, he said, is explained by the “very high vaccine coverage” and lower virulence of the Ómicron variant.
The speed of contacts since the fair, for the fourth day followed by the second, and in the last 24 hours has dropped 60 points, to 3,078 per 100,000 inhabitants, notified in the last two weeks. 100,000 registered inhabitants in the country
The Spanish autonomous communities with the highest cumulative incidence of contagion are those of Catalonia (5,353), Murcia (4,525) and Aragon (4,511).
The Spanish health services are that 118 new cases of the disease.922 were reported in the last 24 hours and that the death toll associated with covid-19 was 199 during the same period.
The total number of cases of covid-19 reported in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, two years ago, is now 9,779,130 and 92,966 people have died due to the disease.
The number of hospitalized patients decreased again, to 18,393 (there were 18,548 on Thursday), which corresponds to 14.7% of the occupancy of hospital beds, with 2,060 in intensive care units (2,099) which occupy 21, 8% of the beds in these services.
The highest measure of patient pressure with patients with covid-19 in hospital care units, highest in the communities of Catalonia (39.6%) and Aragon (32.5%).