The sixth wave of coronavirus continues to grow in Catalonia, which has once again beaten the contagion record of the entire epidemic, with more than 203,000 in the last seven days, and an increase in mortality, with an average of 32 deaths from covid every day in the last week, although the speed of spread is beginning to slow down. In a single day, 48,307 infections have been reported, which represents the largest number of cases of contagion in a single day.
According to data updated this Tuesday by the Department of Health, there is a total of 2,672 people admitted for covid in Catalan hospitals, 55 more than on Monday, of which 529, seven more than yesterday, are in serious condition in the ICU, 332 of them intubated and 19 on ECMO (extracorporeal respiration).
Rt that decreases
The regrowth risk (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic, it has not yet peaked, it has once again broken the record for the entire epidemic and stood at 5,506 points, 24 more than yesterday, while the speed of disease spread (Rt), which had been growing for five days, has begun to slow down and has stood at 1.23, two hundredths less than yesterday, with which every 100 infected infected an average of 123 people.
The increase in infections Outpatient clinics continue to collapse, which yesterday attended 99,845 visits due to covid, close to the peak of 100,241 that they registered on Monday of last week, despite the measures adopted by Salut to lighten the dispensing of casualties and the communication of positives through pharmacies .
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