Infections continue to skyrocket: Health registers almost 9,000 in one day

The contagions continue to skyrocket and touch one more day the 9,000 in one day.

The figures updated and released this Thursday by the Ministry of Health

, 378 more than on Wednesday, when 8,581 were notified.

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Of the nearly 9,000 confirmed cases,

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A third of them in Madrid (1,200), the Basque Country (564) and Andalusia (363).

The new registered cases increase the total number of infections in our country from the beginning of the pandemic to 488,513.

"Madrid is the community that has the most transmission at the moment," said

, director of the Alerts and Emergencies Coordination Center (CCAES).

"Of course, it is the one that most concerns us all."

Due to the characteristics of the city, he has argued, with a high population density and mass media, "a lot of concern is generated."

Despite the unstoppable increase in infections in the community, Simón has declared that the upward curve in the region could change within several weeks.

"I am almost sure that this effect will be observed shortly, but we cannot launch the bells to the flight until that effect, which we hope will be suddenly, is obvious.

" he admitted.

On the possibility of confining Madrid, Simón

: "Ultimately, it is the autonomous community that has to assess the suitability of this type of action."

The expert has also stated that the region can present "other alternatives other than confinement and, if I am not mistaken, tomorrow it will communicate some of them."

Regarding the incidence of the virus in Spain, with 98 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days, Simón has expressed that "

."

"This implies that there has not been a complete stabilization, but the speed has been reduced" in the increase of the transmission.

"We have been observing incidents all week that remain relatively stable," said the epidemiologist, who added that "the increase will be much slower than what we were observing in the previous weeks."

Regarding the PCR tests carried out, Simón explained that "we are gradually increasing their number in a very stable way".

On average,

, the highest percentage being in those communities with higher transmission.

Thus, this figure in Madrid rises to 18%.

Even so, Simón has assured that the latest daily data reflects that the positivity is somewhat lower, which also

.

Madrid, with more deaths

The official count has

reported

, a figure increasingly frequent in the latest published Health reports.

Therefore, the total number of people who died from the virus in Spain

.

Of course, this figure does not include those deaths in residences or those who presented symptoms characteristic of the coronavirus, but who did not get to perform the PCR test.

With death date in the last week, 191 deaths have been reported.

Madrid continues to be, by far, the community in which the most lives are being lost in this second pandemic wave,

.

Behind it is Andalusia, which communicates 24;

Castilla and León, 23;

Galicia, 15;

Valencia, 12;

and the Balearic Islands, 10. Likewise, Catalonia registers nine;

Canary Islands, seven;

Castilla La Mancha, six;

La Rioja, four;

Extremadura and Navarra, three;

and Cantabria and Ceuta, one.

The rest of the regions have not added any deaths in the last week.

Regarding hospitalizations

.

It is the first time that has happened since this data was included in the official report, several weeks ago.

Revenues in the last week, on the other hand, once again touched 2,000.

Specifically, the Health report has registered 1,853 in the last seven days.

;

followed by Andalusia, with 314;

and Valencia, with 179.

In addition, 144 infected have been transferred to the ICU in the same period of time, 29 new since yesterday.

On the other hand,

.

Regarding the care capacity of hospitals to care for Covid patients, the official count reports that,

, in the same trend, therefore, as in the days before.

The communities with the most occupation are Madrid (16%), Aragon (12%) and the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country (11%).

"The hospital burden is still contained, to a certain extent", has valued Simón, who has pointed out that "the discharges are not very far from the income" and that "it is necessary to reinforce yes or yes the primary attention and the public health".

In contrast to Aragon, the Balearic Islands and the Basque Country, he has warned that "

, and that percentage of hospitalization, although very slowly, is rising".

Spain, second country in contagions

At the European level, our country continues to be the second in Europe with the most infections since the beginning of the pandemic (488,513),

.

Likewise, the United Kingdom and France follow, with 338,676 and 293,024, respectively.

The country with the highest number of deaths continues to be the United Kingdom (41,514), followed by Italy (35,497) and France (30,686).

In addition, Spain continues to lead in cumulative incidence (AI) in the last 14 days among the European countries that have registered the most infections.

(212, specifically).

It is a figure that is more than double that of the second country with the most AI: France, with 94 infected, a figure that is rising rapidly in recent days in the French country.

"Both in Spain and in France we are notably increasing our detection capacity," said Simón, who clarified that the different levels of tracking between countries

and erroneous conclusions can be drawn.

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