Health reports 11,998 new infections and 261 deaths from coronavirus

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

to the global figure since the beginning of the pandemic, which since Monday

(today 825,410, specifically).

Of the almost 12,000 positives,

performed in the last 24 hours (the rest are diagnostic tests that, although their results have been released on the last day, were done in previous days),

.

After the Government yesterday questioned the veracity of the data offered by Madrid in the face of the sudden improvement in the evolution of the virus in the area, and that after today's bilateral meeting of the Covid group has taken for granted, (on Monday the community notified 207 infected and 70 deceased, figures far removed from those of last Friday, when 814 positives and 156 deaths were registered), the region has once again reported data similar, even higher, than those provided in recent weeks.

Thus, it has accumulated

, more than five times that of the community in second place: the Basque Country, which has counted 323. This rise in the number of cases in Madrid has meant that the

of the Community (number cases per hundred thousand inhabitants)

The official count has reported, on the other hand,

.

In this way, there are already 32,486 people who have lost their lives due to covid since the beginning of this crisis.

It should be remembered that neither those who died in residences nor those who presented symptoms compatible with the virus but who could not have a diagnostic test to confirm it are included in this calculation.

With a

date

, Health counts 484 deaths.

Almost two thirds of them are concentrated in

, very far from the rest of the communities.

The former continues to be the region that worries the most in this regard, reporting

.

Andalusia also presents a significant number of deaths and reports 79;

closely followed by Castilla y León, which totals 74. Galicia has 29;

Extremadura, 24;

Castilla La Mancha and Navarra, 22;

Valencia and the Basque Country, 16;

and La Rioja, 10. In addition, the Balearic Islands registered nine deaths in the last seven days;

Catalonia, seven;

Asturias, six;

Aragon and the Canary Islands, five;

Cantabria and Murcia, two;

and Ceuta, one.

Melilla has not accumulated any deceased in this time.

In addition, 2,271 people have had to be admitted in the last week.

Most of them are located in Madrid (476), Castilla y León (332) and Andalusia (326).

According to the updated report,

are currently hospitalized in Spain, 253 fewer than the previous day.

Patients in Madrid account for

, the community that is placed second in this ranking (3,483 admitted to 1,420).

Andalusia also continues to exceed the barrier of 1,000 hospitalized (1,223).

In reality, Madrid, Catalonia and Andalusia account for more than half of current hospitalizations for the virus in our country.

Of the 2,271, 161 patients have entered the ICU in the same period of time and 71 more since yesterday.

Thus, there are already 13,907 patients who have been

since the start of the pandemic.

Regarding the care capacity of hospitals, the average number of beds occupied by patients with covid at the national level, not including other pathologies, is 9.08%.

The percentage of intensive care occupation is even higher: 17.68%.

The region that worries the most in this regard is Madrid, whose occupation in this hospital unit is at 40%.

The update of the Madrid data has also influenced a significant

-number of confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days- in a single day, since it has gone from an AI of 254 infections Monday, to 273, according to the new report.

In this way, Spain

among the European countries that have reported the most infections.

Belgium surpasses France and is placed in second position, with 234 infected compared to 233 in the Gallic country.

The Netherlands also has a worrying and similar AI rate, with 230 positives.

Likewise, Spain continues to be the second country in Europe with the most infections since the start of the pandemic, only behind Russia (1,225,889).

It is followed by France and the United Kingdom, with 624,724 and 515,571, respectively.

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