During the month of April, the accumulated incidence of coronavirus -confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants- in the last 14 days (IA14) rose in Spain a 47%. This upward trend in infections has led epidemiologists to speak of the “start” or, in his case, of the imminence of the seventh wave covid, today already at the center of the public conversation.
How does L’Hospitalet de Llobregat face this next seventh covid wave? three local keys x-ray the current health situation in the second city of Catalonia:
1. Infections almost doubled in the last month. While at the beginning of April the municipality registered an incidence of infections of 128.59 cases per 100,000 people during the last 14 days, as of May 2 the data shows an AI14 of 236.05.
2. Revenues remain stable. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat is one of the cities in Barcelonès where admissions have not grown, remaining between 20 and 30 admissions in recent weeks.
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3. No deaths at the end of April. On April 1, 2020, when the pandemic was taking its first steps, 170 people died in the Barcelonès region alone. According to the data, this past April, two years later, only Barcelona has ended the month registering deaths (specifically 10, from April 26 to May 2) in the Barcelonès region. In L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, as in Badalona and Santa Coloma, there were no deaths during that last week of April.
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