September starts with a strong increase in infections: Health registers 8,115 new cases

September starts with another strong increase in the number of infections.

The updated figures from the Ministry of Health and released this Tuesday

, a figure similar to that of the reports in recent days.

There are already 470,973 people infected by the virus since the pandemic.

The more than 8,000 positives include both PCR tests carried out in the last 24 hours and those carried out previously, but whose results have been confirmed during the last day.

Regarding the positive PCR only yesterday,

, when 2,489 were notified.

The official count has also reported 58 new deaths

, so the total number of deaths from the virus in our country now stands at 29,152.

Of course, Health has not yet included in this figure deaths in residences or those who presented symptoms compatible with Covid-19, but who did not undergo the PCR test.

With a death date in the last week, 159 deaths have been reported.

Deaths in the last week

Most of them correspond to Madrid, which reports 63

.

A data very far from the second community that more deaths has registered: Castilla y León, with 24 new deaths;

followed by Andalusia, 20;

Valencia, 13;

Galicia, 11;

Balearic Islands, seven;

and the Canary Islands, six.

In addition, Castilla La Mancha, Catalonia and La Rioja report three;

Navarra, two;

and Ceuta, Extremadura, Murcia and the Basque Country, one.

Regarding revenues, after Monday's slight decrease compared to previous days, the official count has registered a new increase

, 68 more than in the previous day, when 1,693 were notified.

Also, 888 patients have been hospitalized in the last 24 hours (Monday, 750).

Madrid is the community with the most hospitalizations in the last week (409), followed by Andalusia (289), Castilla y León (165) and Valencia (156).

On the other hand,

.

In this way, there are already 12,345 patients with coronavirus who have required this hospital unit since the start of the pandemic.

On the other hand, 795 people have been discharged in the last day.

Regarding the healthcare capacity of hospitals to cover covid admissions, the report reports that, on average,

.

Madrid and Aragón are the communities with the highest occupation, with 15% and 14%, respectively.

200 infections per 100,000 inhabitants

The second wave of the pandemic has caused Spain to have a cumulative incidence in the last 14 days that already exceeds 200 infections per 100,000 inhabitants,

.

Specifically, on the 3rd of last month (the 1st fell on Saturday and, therefore, the figures were not updated), the AI ​​rate in our country then stood at 62 infections.

The high number of now has placed Spain for several weeks at the head in Europe with an AI 212 infected people.

The country that is in second position among the Europeans with the most infections registered since the beginning of the pandemic is France,

.

Even so, it is a very remote figure from that detected in Spain.

On the other hand, our country continues to be the second in Europe with the most people infected by the virus since the arrival of Covid-19

Likewise, the United Kingdom and France follow, with 335,873 and 281,025, respectively.

The country with the highest number of deaths is still the United Kingdom (41,501), followed by Italy (35,483) and France (30,635).

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