The sixth wave of covid still runaway in Cataloniawhich once again broke the record for infections for the entire epidemic, with more than 222,000 in the last seven days, and a curve epidemic that continues to growalthough for the third consecutive day the number of seriously ill people admitted to the ICUs falls.
According to updated data this friday for salutthere are 2,709 people admitted for covid in Catalan hospitals, six more than yesterday, of which 500, two less, are serious in critical units.
The regrowth risk (EPG), indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic, still has not reached its ceiling, has returned break the record for the entire epidemic and has stood at 6,198 points, while the rate of spread of the disease (Rt), which had been slowly decelerating, has fallen from 1.21 to 1.22.
The increase in infections, most with mild symptoms, continues to reduce students in person at schools and collapsing the clinicswhich yesterday attended 67,513 visits due to covid, a number, however, lower than previous days.
enhance positivity
The total number of confirmed cases of covid by all types of tests amounts to 1,913,283, of which 41,261 have been notified in the last 24 hours, while in the last 7 days they have been 222,756 -new record for the entire pandemic- diagnoses confirmed by PCR or antigen test.
Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 25,238 people have officially died in Catalonia from covid, none of them reported in the last 24 hours, while in the last week 237 people have died from the disease, an average of 34 a daywith peaks of 37 and 38 deaths on various days in January in this sixth wave.
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The cumulative incidence of positives at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 2,856, while the incidence at 14 days (IA14) is 5,205. Both indicators, also records, continue to rise day after day.
positivity –the percentage of positive results in PCR tests and antigen tests- improved for the fifth consecutive day and stood at 21.5, one point less than yesterday, still far from the 5% established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider an epidemic under control.
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