The epidemic indicators of covid continue to improve in Catalonia, where hospital pressure also decreases. According to data updated this sunday by Health, there are 2,278 people admitted to hospitals for covid, like yesterday, of which 337 you are in critical condition (yesterday, 352). It is a figure, the latter, that has not been seen since before christmas. And although it remains high, the indicators continue confirming one more day the decline of this sixth wave marked by the omicron variant, the most contagious of those that have been detected.
The number of new positives is also decreasing considerablywhich has been noted for days in outpatient clinics, with figures for visits far from 100,000 in one day that they reached, Yesterday, for example, there were 2,782, although you also have to take into account that it was Saturday.
very few infections
The total number of confirmed cases of covid by all types of tests amounts to 2,334,359 of which only 4,412 have been notified in the last 24 hours.
Other reference indicators continue to decline: the risk of outbreak (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic and which reached the maximum since the start of the health emergency on January 16, with 6,903 points, has 18 consecutive days plummetingand today it stood at 1,446 points, but still a very high risk since the high risk threshold is 100 points.
Reference Data
Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 26,226 people have officially died in Catalonia from covid, only one reported in the last 24 hours.
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The cumulative incidence of positives at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 805 cases, while the incidence at 14 days (IA14) is 2,373. Both indicators drop for another day.
Positivity -the percentage of positive results in PCR tests and antigen tests- continues to drop slightly and stands at 15.1%, a total of 21 hundredths less than yesterday, but more than three times the 5% established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider an epidemic under control.