Health registers 8,866 infections and 34 more deaths on the day

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The latest update of the daily report of the Ministry of Health, published this afternoon, Wednesday, reflects an increase in the total of cases diagnosed in Spain of 8,866, reaching

.

The figure maintains the trend of the previous days, since yesterday's report, Tuesday, showed 8,964 new confirmed cases, a number similar to those published in the latest counts.

On Monday, Health registered 26,560 positives since Friday -the weekend no data is published-, at an average of about 8,850 infections per day.

The new figure for Wednesday therefore confirms

.

The data includes PCRs carried out in previous days and whose positive result has not been made known until the last day, in addition to those carried out in the last 24 hours whose result is already known.

If we limit ourselves to this last figure, the number of diagnoses made since yesterday remains at 4,410.

Most of them, in Madrid (1,728), whose numbers remain very high and far from the rest of the communities.

It is followed by the Basque Country, with 633.

Madrid is also the community that has registered the most hospitalizations in the last seven days, 396, followed by Andalusia, 379. In the last 24 hours, a total of

.

Madrid is the community where more people remain admitted, 2,506, with 299 in intensive care.

It also continues to be the autonomy with the greatest hospital pressure, since 17% of its beds are dedicated to Covid patients.

In Spain, the percentage of beds occupied by the epidemic is 7.3% for the country as a whole.

As for deaths, the day's report increases the number of deaths from Covid-19 to 29,620, of which 34 have been registered on the last day (the global official figure does not include those who died in residences or those who presented compatible symptomatology not confirmed by PCR).

Madrid is the community that has reported the most deaths with a date of death in the last seven days, 80, followed by Andalusia, 37. In the country as a whole,

.

Just a week ago, on Wednesday, September 2, that same data added 177 deaths for all of Spain in the previous seven days.

Incidence also stagnates

Spain continues to lead Europe, as usual for weeks, in the cumulative incidence of the virus in the last 14 days.

In the new report, Spain reaches

per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by France, with 122.3.

The Spanish figure reflects

.

In the Community of Madrid, the one with the highest transmission, the cumulative incidence is

, which could indicate, if the trend is confirmed, that it has already

in this region.

The Basque Country (378.53), Navarra (376.48) and La Rioja (373.42) present very similar data to each other and are, after Madrid, the ones with the highest incidence.

More restrictions ... and strike in Madrid

The data comes on a day when

and

have announced that, if the judiciary so endorses it, they

.

The restrictions affect wakes and funerals, religious and civil celebrations, capacity of hotel and commercial establishments and other cultural and sports activities, as well as family gatherings.

In Madrid, the main union of doctors in the region, Amyts, has announced a strike throughout the community over the "serious situation" of primary care.

As explained by the union, it will formally register the call tomorrow, Thursday,

, according to the same sources.

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