The speed of spread of covid in Catalonia, below 1 for the first time in three months

the speed of spread of covid in Catalonia it has fallen below 1 for the first time in more than three months. According to data updated this Sunday by the Department of Health, the rt it’s today from 0.96 (eight hundredths less), which means that every 100 infected infect an average of 96 people. This indicator was not lower than 1 since last October 15, when it was at 0.97.

The decrease also occurs in the regrowth risk (EPG), which measures the potential growth of the epidemic, now stands at 5,565 points (556 less than yesterday).

Instead, the number of people admitted by covid-19 in Catalan hospitals continues to rise and this Sunday there are already 2,942 (86 more than yesterday), although the most serious have dropped by one and are now 463, according to the Efe agency.

In the last 24 hours there have been reports 11,433 more cases of covid-19 in Catalonia, bringing the number of people who have been infected since the start of the pandemic to 2,169,161. The deceased, 25,608, are the same as those reported until this Saturday.

Goodbye to the mask in summer?

The Biocomsc group researcher Enric Álvarez has confirmed the “clear downward trend” in cases of covid-19 in Catalonia and has predicted a spring without problems in hospitals.

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“The CAP data yesterday and the day before yesterday were good, everything indicates that last weekend it began to drop in a more important way,” he explained to Catalunya Ràdio in statements collected by the ACN agency.

As Álvarez explained, the decrease is manifested above all in children and young people, in whom the incidence was higher because it is the group in which more tests are being carried out. The researcher has pointed out that in the summer it is even possible that remove the mask indoors.