occupation of patients covid in hospitals has been reduced in one month to more than half, going from 10 to 4.4%, a figure that translates into 5,138 hospitalized currently, while the seventh wave continues to subside with an incidence among over 59 years old already below 250 cases.
The peak of this seventh wave, caused by the advance of the Ba.4 and Ba.5 variants of omicron, was reached around the second week of July with an incidence among citizens aged 60 or over that exceeded 1,250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a level of transmission that has plummeted in the last month by more than 1,000 points.
Thus, the hospital situation is once again stable and declining with half the number of patients a month ago, when there were more than 11,500 in total and a peak of just over half a thousand admitted to intensive care units.
354 critical patients
Currently, the occupancy of patients in ICU is 4% with 354 critical, a normalized indicator that decreases more slowly given that hospitalizations for covid in these units are mostly long-stay.
Canary Islands (6.6%), Murcia (6%), Castilla-La Mancha (5.7%), Castilla y León (5.6%), the Valencian Community (5.5%), Cantabria 5.6% ), the Community of Madrid (5.5%) or Navarra (5.2%), are the territories that continue with the highest general hospital occupancy and somewhat above the national average (4.4%).
181 deaths in the last week
The number of deaths since the start of the pandemic amounts to 111,906 after being certified 181 deaths in the last week and the fatality rate among those over 59 years of age remains at 3.6%.
This rate continues to be higher in territories such as Castilla-La Mancha (5.1%), the Community of Madrid (4.5%), Andalusia (4.2%) or Aragón (4%).
The epidemiological situation, according to the latest reports from the Ministry of Health, it continues to be attributed to the Ba.4 and Ba.5 subvariants of omicron, already present between 72% and 100% of cases.
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