The contagions of coronavirus grow again slightly in Catalonia, with more than 3,500 new daily diagnoses and a risk of outbreak that grows for the second day in a row, while the speed of spread is getting closer to 1, although hospitalizations continue to decrease. According to data updated this Tuesday by the Department of Health, today there are 1,122 people admitted for covid in hospitals, 30 less than yesterday, of which 154, five less than the day before, are in serious condition in the ICUs.
The rate of spread of the virus (Rt) has started to rise and has been located at 0.96, five hundredths more than yesterday, that is, every hundred infected infect an average of 96 people, which indicates that the epidemic continues to decline, but more slowly.
The risk of regrowth (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic, which reached the maximum since the start of the health emergency on January 16, with 6,903 points, and which has fallen since then, has upturned today again and has been located in 629 pointsseven more than yesterday, a very high risk, since the “high risk” threshold is 100 points.
The incidence to accumulated to seven days also rises, which goes from 316 to 318 and that of 14 days, from 687 to 678.
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