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The rise in infections does not stop. The figures updated and released this Thursday by the Ministry of Health report 1,229 new infected people who took the test yesterday. However, the real increase in cases (which includes the PCR performed on previous days, but whose positive diagnosis was revealed in the last few hours) is 2,789 . Thus, while on Wednesday the total number of people infected since the start of the pandemic was 282,641, today this figure has risen to 285,430 .

Most of the 1,229 new positives are concentrated in Aragon (352); followed by Madrid (225) and the Basque Country (145).

Fernando Simón, director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), has put 483 outbreaks that are still active in Spain. "The good news is that 75% of them have 10 or fewer cases ." However, the Health spokesperson has acknowledged that the remaining 25%, who do have more than 10 cases, do run the risk of being out of control. "The other 25%, which are about 100 cases throughout Spain, do have a risk of generating a community transmission of the virus," said Simón at a press conference. "Hopefully the situation of all of them is controllable," he added.

However, Simón, who has acknowledged that 26 new outbreaks have been reported today and 30 yesterday (there are 400 new outbreaks throughout Spain in the last month), did not want to give data on where these outbreaks are or on the size of each , despite the fact that this newspaper has asked Sanidad and Simón himself at a press conference for the list and scope of each of the almost 500 active outbreaks that the ministry that currently exists does recognize.

He has ensured that 34% of the outbreaks occur in the social sphere. Family parties have already generated 90 outbreaks with 770 cases and leisure places, 30, although with a higher number of infections: 1,000. "Outbreaks associated with leisure outside the family environment are much more difficult to trace," he warned.

"Over 60% of the cases that are detected are asymptomatic," said Fernando Simón, who has justified this high percentage due to the screening and case detection work. In this sense, he explained that infected people who do not have symptoms transmit "much less" the virus.

Asymptomatic detection

Despite the accelerated multiplication of positives in recent weeks, Simón has acknowledged that the current situation "gives a lot of confidence that you can work well and control. Months ago we saw what happened, but now we are in a very favorable situation" . At this point, he noted that at the peak of the pandemic "we did not detect any asymptomatic, none . "

Regarding the detection of cases, Simón reported that "we are detecting around 60% of them, while in March we detected 10%." This may lead us to misinterpret some of the developments, "he said.

In addition, during the last week, 70,000 suspects have been identified in the Communities and almost 98% of them have been subjected to PCR : "It gives a very clear idea of ​​the speed and sensitivity of our system."

On the possibility of suffering a second wave, the scientist has insisted that the moment of the pandemic that is being experienced now " is not at all comparable to what was experienced in March and April. Right now almost nobody dies."

"You have to be sensible and not use flashy names (referring to the second wave)," said Simón, who explained that a second wave would be a " wide uncontrolled community transmission ", a scenario that, according to him, has not yet been has stepped on.

Contagions have quadrupled in July

The cases have multiplied by four throughout the month of July . According to the Health report, 13,391 cases have been registered during the last seven days , a figure much higher than that offered on June 30. Specifically, in the last week of the previous month, the number of accumulated cases reached 3,999.

Regarding the profile of those infected, Simón has reported that during the last three weeks the average ages ranged between 36 and 38 years , while the infected older people "are much less."

"If necessary, there will have to be some punitive mechanism, but we also don't have to demonize these people," he said of the youth at the center of many outbreaks. "Which is not to say that you have wide sleeves."

A CONCERNING INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF HOSPITALIZATIONS

The more than 400 active outbreaks in our country do not give truce to hospitalizations either . Specifically, the official count reveals that 438 people have entered during the last week (on the previous day there were 427), more than double than two weeks ago when 196 were counted . Of the 438, 25 people have entered the ICU (ten more compared to one week) in the same period of time and eight in the last 24 hours. Thus, the total admissions in this hospital unit rises to 11,772 .

In the last 24 hours, two new deaths have also been reported , bringing the total number of people who have lost their lives to 28,443. This data excludes deaths from residences and those who had symptoms compatible with Covid-19 but did not undergo a diagnostic test. With death date in the last week , the official count reports ten deceased. Of these, four correspond to Catalonia. Valencia and Castilla y León communicate two; and Extremadura and Madrid, one . The rest of the Autonomous Communities have not notified any deceased during the last seven days.

Spain, at the head of European countries with the highest incidence of the virus

Since yesterday, Spain continues to lead the European countries with the highest incidence of the virus , with 54.1 infections per 100,000 inhabitants (yesterday they were 51.1). It is followed by Russia (48.3); Belgium (35.8); and Portugal (27.7).

In number of infections, Spain remains in third position (285,430), only behind Russia (828,990) and the United Kingdom (301,455). Italy and Turkey continue in fourth and fifth position, with 246,776 and 227,982 infections, respectively. The country with the highest number of deaths is still the United Kingdom (45,961), followed by Italy (35,129) and France (30,238).

" The European continent is the part of the world where the evolution of the epidemic is most favorable, " said Simón, who added that the United States, Brazil and India are the countries that are the worst "by far with respect to the rest." On the other hand, he explained that in Latin America "there is no favorable evolution."

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