The Minister of Health, Caroline Darias, communicated this Wednesday to the autonomous communities that, starting next week, it will stop reporting the daily cases of those infected and deceased by covid-19. This decision of the Department of Health comes after two years of pandemic.
Spain has passed the 100,000 deaths (100,037) certified since the start of the pandemic, after registering 154 new deaths in the last day, in which the indicator of the Cumulative incidence has dropped from ‘very high’ to ‘high’ risk (486 cases) with a notable drop in new infections detected (18,803)
Data from the Ministry of Health suggest that the descent of the curvealready below the threshold of 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, while the communities continue to report the number of deaths left by the sixth wave, 13,120 since its start in mid-October.
Regarding the data on deaths, the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, has lamented the records of recent days and has pointed out that, despite the fall of the sixth wave, the number of deaths reported by the communities continues to be high. Health data indicates that in the last week more than 1,100 deaths have been recorded.
The sixth wave loses strength in all transmission indicators, which have fallen sharply since mid-January: by more than 80% in the last six weeks and by 30% in the last one.
At the same time, they progressively fall hospital occupancy indicators, which are already at ‘low risk’ with the national average occupancy rate in intensive care units at 9.8% and on the ward at 4.9%. Hospital admissions quantified this Wednesday amounted to 6,188 (6,478 yesterday), 902 still serious in the ICU, while there have been 778 admissions in the last day compared to 548 discharges.
Only three territories have their ucis at high risk by covid occupation, although with indicators up to 50% lower than in the saturation peaks during the sixth wave: Catalonia (18.6%), Aragon (17.5%) and Ceuta (17%). The Basque Country (14.1%), the Community of Madrid (13.5%) and the Canary Islands (12.2%) are the next on the list with the highest rate of patients. The territories with the fewest ICU admissions, in line with the statistics recorded throughout the sixth wave, are Andalusia (5.2%), Extremadura (3.3%) and Galicia (2.8%).
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