The coronavirus still noticeable in hospitals in Catalonia, where the number of people admitted increases again. According to the latest data, which collect data for a week (they did not communicate on Tuesday), there are 1,247 people hospitalizeds, of which 28 are in critical condition. The latest notifications were 1,105 in the plant and 32 in ICUs. The figures have been released this Friday coinciding with the notice from the epidemiologist at the Barcelona Clinic Antoni Trilla of the detection of the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of omicron.
More data: some indicators decline and others are slightly increasing. This is the case of the cumulative incidence at 7 days, which goes from 147 to 137 and that of 14, from 324 to 288. In contrast, the regrowth risk (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of epidemic and that reached on January 16 the maximum since the beginning of the health emergencywith 6,903 points, goes from 273 to 280. And the Rt indicates that the virus is expanding, that is, that it exceeds 1 point again: it goes from 0.90 to 1.05.
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Positivity is also very high, at 18%, far from the 5% limit stipulated by the WHO to consider an epidemic controlled.
Although the virulence of the coronavirus has nothing to do with that before vaccination, the virus continues to kill: 69 people have died in the last week. In total, since the start of the pandemic, there are already 27,564 people who have died from the virus.