Health questions the veracity of the data offered by the Community of Madrid

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The Ministry of Health questions the veracity of the data provided by the Community of Madrid, which shows a slight improvement compared to the latest figures.

In fact, the epidemiologist Fernando Simón has explained that the delays in the notification of the data observed in several communities

", and has referred, after being asked by the press , to the improvement of the Community of Madrid.

"A part" of the decline in incidence that has been registered in recent days "may be due to this delay," he said.

As the week goes by, the Community of Madrid tends to add more cases corresponding to previous days, as explained by Simón.

To this problem is added that

, in reference to the new tests, which could also affect this drop in incidence in Madrid, added the Health spokesman.

The objective is that there are "real" decreases in the incidence, and that they are not only "an artifact in the notification", has valued Simón.

"I really hope with all my heart that it goes better,

" the epidemiologist said about Madrid, who, however, has concluded that, with the current information, it cannot be said "that it is going better or worse" .

Illa, for his part, has indicated about the Community of Madrid: "I am not going to enter into any type of controversy or public discussion", in reference to whether mobility has decreased or, as the Madrid authorities maintain, has increased as a result of the measures promoted by Health.

"If mobility has to be further restricted, it is a decision that the Community of Madrid has to make"

, said the minister.

Questioned by the Madrid data, which reflects a stabilization in recent days, he has advanced: "I hope the data is like this, but we think that the objective is to lower the curve", an objective that will take "weeks".

They will also be, as Illa has been repeating in successive appearances, "very tough weeks."

800,000 infections

Spain exceeds 800,000 infections since the start of the pandemic.

On the first working day after the closure of Madrid, the report released this Monday by the Ministry of Health shows 23,480 new confirmed cases throughout the Spanish geography since Friday (the data is not updated on weekends).

Of the 23,480 positives, 2,099 have undergone the PCR test in the last 24 hours.

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According to the official count,

, a figure very far from the 814 registered in the region last Friday.

In addition, Health has not added any positive in Andalusia and has not indicated that it is a technical failure.

The community, however, had reported 571 more infections on Monday.

Health has also added

.

Of course, neither those who died in residences nor those who had characteristic symptoms of the virus, but who did not perform a PCR test to confirm it, are included in this global figure.

With death date in the last week,

The death rate during this period of time has also dropped in Madrid,

, almost half of those counted on Friday, which were 156. Even so, the region continues to lead in deaths reported in the last seven days.

Castilla y León is placed in second place and registers 67;

Andalusia, 59;

Castilla La Mancha, 37;

Extremadura and Galicia, 23;

Valencia, 15;

Navarra, 14;

La Rioja, 12;

and the Basque Country, 11. Likewise, Aragon reports eight deaths in the last week;

Asturias, Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, six;

Canarias and Cantabria, three;

Murcia, two;

and Ceuta, one.

Melilla has been the only one that has not added any deaths.

At the European level, Spain remains in second place in number of infections (813,412),

.

In third and fourth positions are France and the United Kingdom, with 619,190 and 502,978 cases, respectively.

In addition, our country is once again the fourth European with the most deaths from coronavirus, after last Thursday it was placed in third position after beating France.

However, today's report reflects that the French country has reported a total of 32,230 deaths, five more than in Spain.

In first position continues the United Kingdom, with 42,350.

Our country also continues to lead in cumulative incidence (AI) -number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants- among the European countries that have reported the most infections,

.

France is very close with 240. For their part, the Netherlands and Belgium also already exceed 200 confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, with 220 the first and 221 the second.

The truth is that, despite the fact that the data provided by the Ministry of Health continue to worry, the AI ​​rate in Spain has dropped significantly in the last week.

Specifically, on September 28, Health reported 290 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure that, as already mentioned, has decreased to 254.

"Very worried"

"We remain very concerned",

has started the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa.

"The next few weeks are going to continue to be very tough weeks," he insisted.

Specifically, he has referred to the infection rate, positivity and hospital admissions, the three parameters that caused the confinement of Madrid, and pointed out that the communities with those three high data will be the ones that will have the worst time in the coming days.

Illa thanked the autonomous communities

, and insisted: "We care very little, that is, nothing, everything that is not the health of citizens."

She pointed out that what should be of concern in the face of the pandemic is "management, management and management", and advanced that tomorrow, Tuesday, the Government will meet again with the Community of Madrid.

"We will review specific aspects of management."

On Wednesday, in addition, there will be a new meeting of the Interterritorial Council, in which the intention of the Ministry, Illa said, will be "to take a new agreement."

Lower than 50 cases

Fernando Simón, director of the Center for Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, valued that, in the latest available data, "the figures we are talking about, although,

He also recalled that there are "up to seven or eight days late" in the communication of the figures by some autonomous communities.

,

the epidemiologist, who indicated: "The objective is to go very clearly below 50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants"

Simón stressed that

and there has been an increase in cases in people over 60 years of age, which have gone from 15% to 20% of the total in a few weeks.

In the general data, it is compensated because young people, under 15 years of age, are also older, so the increase in older people is not reflected in the average,

On the situation of the Community of Madrid, Simón valued: "In fact, in Madrid, we are still in a phase of a relative ascent".

The Health spokesperson added: "Yes, there are areas that are improving, and that is important, but the truth

.

Finally, he noted that the objective should be to lower the cumulative incidence to 50 cases or less per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

"We cannot think that an incidence of 500 per 100,000 is a good situation at all."

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