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The new cleaning of the statistics makes the interpretation of the data more than complicated, despite the good news announced by Simón. The new data actually shows a growth of 2.2% in the total number of confirmed positive cases, going from 214,535 to 219,764, taking into account both the cases confirmed by PCR, the most reliable test, and those diagnosed. by antibody tests and confirmed positives in asymptomatic people and in whom there is a high probability that they are people who have long since passed the disease. In other words, the total cases would have grown by 5,229 new cases (including asymptomatic), the biggest rebound in recent days and not in the less than 3,000 new cases announced.

Even if the asymptomatic patients are discounted, as Health already did in their tables, the figures still do not square with the optimism celebrated by both Simon and the Health Minister, Salvador Illa a few minutes later, which has once again highlighted the largest number of new cured (3,105) than new official cases after cleaning (2,796). Discounting the asymptomatic (1,756) there would be 28,008 cases this Friday compared to 213,024 confirmed on Thursday (after discounting the asymptomatic as well). That is, with comparable figures that exclude the controversial asymptomatic cases whose contagion cannot be located in time and which are those that until now had been using Health, the number of positives would have grown in 4,984 cases and not in the 2,796 cases announced. That figure would represent a new peak and would confirm several consecutive days on the rise even despite the dance of figures from previous days . And, in addition, it would continue to be significantly superior to that of new cures.

To further complicate the issue, Health confirms this Friday in its international comparison table 202,990 cases for Spain (which in reality correspond only to those diagnosed by PCR), which according to the document represents 2,796 more cases than Thursday ... but Thursday In that same comparative table with the rest of European countries, Spain did not appear with the assumed 200,194 positives that would come from subtracting both numbers, but actually found 213,024 positives, that is, Spain would have made almost 13,000 disappear in its comparison with other countries cases from one day to the next. Not even assuming that Health has now decided to only count the positives by PCR (which correspond to those 202,990 cases in this Friday's document), the figures and optimism end up fitting, since that figure was 191,389 confirmed by PCR the day before. In other words, their number would have grown in 11,601 cases.

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