Spain registers 11,970 new cases and already exceeds 900,000 Covid infections

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The coronavirus has already infected

.

The figures updated and released this Wednesday by the Ministry of Health add

to the global figure, which rises to 908,056.

After the slight drop the day before, in which 7,118 confirmed cases were reported (which did not include the data from Andaducía), the increase on this Wednesday returned to the same level as at the end of last week.

Of the nearly 12,000 new positives,

, almost double the number on Tuesday, when 2,759 were reported.

The rest correspond to diagnostic tests incorporated in the last 24 hours but carried out in previous days.

Almost half of these 5,104 diagnoses confirmed on Tuesday are located in Madrid, a community that has shed 2,212 infections, a revealing figure and far removed from the 491 registered the previous day.

In addition, with this data, the region six times the community in second place: the Basque Country, which reports 383 new infected people in the last 24 hours.

Regarding the incidence accumulated in the last 14 days, the Community of Madrid is once again below the threshold of 500 cases / 100,000 inhabitants, which was one of the criteria invoked by Minister Illa to decree the perimeter confinement of ten municipalities and impose it later with the state of alarm.

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, followed by the autonomous city of Melilla (515) and Madrid, with 463. The average for the whole of Spain is 265 / 100,000 inhabitants.

After 80 deaths were recorded on Tuesday, they once again exceed the 200 barrier. Specifically, the official count has incorporated

.

In this way, there are already 33,413 people who have lost their lives due to Covid-19 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

At this time, Castilla y León, Andalusia and Madrid concentrate half of them (104, 75 and 64, respectively).

For their part, Aragon and Castilla La Mancha register 32;

the Basque Country and Galicia, 30;

Navarra, 23;

Valencia, 22;

Extremadura, 18;

and Asturias, the Canary Islands and La Rioja;

10. In addition, Murcia and Catalonia add seven deaths;

Balearic Islands, six;

Melilla, three;

Cantabria, two;

and Ceuta, one.

In addition,

.

Most of them are located in Castilla y León (661) Andalusia (485) and Madrid (361).

According to the updated report, 11,671 infected patients are currently hospitalized in Spain, 374 more than the previous day.

Patients in Madrid account for almost twice that of Catalonia, the community that is placed second in this ranking (3,257 admitted versus 1,866).

Andalusia and Castilla y León also continue to exceed the barrier of 1,000 hospitalized (1,409 and 1,023, respectively).

Of the 2,963 new admissions,

in the last week, 80 more from the previous day.

Thus, the total number of patients who have been transferred to Intensive Care now amounts to 14,351.

Regarding

, the average number of beds occupied by patients with Covid at the national level, not including other pathologies, is 9.84%.

The percentage is even higher if we look at the occupation in ICU: 18.76%.

The regions of greatest concern in this regard are Ceuta (41%), Madrid (37%) and Aragón (32%).

Despite the fact that the accumulated incidence in

continues to be below 500 (409 cases / 100,000 in the last 14 days), the number of hospitalized in the region is alarming.

In the last seven days,

to this community, a figure that has doubled in a week.

Thus, the official count of last September 7, estimated at 329 hospitalizations in the area.

As for

, which this Wednesday

, the statistics reflect an exponential growth in data.

The cumulative incidence is about to be above the national average, which stands at 265 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days.

That community also presents a rate of 263, 73 infections more than a week ago.

Likewise, Catalonia has doubled its infections in the last two weeks.

In this sense, the region has notified in the new Health report a total of 10,361 infections in the last seven days when on September 30, the Government counted 5,025 infected people during that week.

At the European level,

only behind Russia (1,326,178).

In third and fourth positions are France and the United Kingdom, with 756,472 and 634,920 cases, respectively.

Regarding the total number of deaths, only the United Kingdom (43,018) and Italy (36,246) surpass our country.

On the other hand, in the face of a

that advances unstoppably in the rest of Europe, there are already several countries that present an AI higher than that of Spain.

In this way,

is at the top

.

They are followed by the Netherlands (369), France (287), the United Kingdom (272) and, in fifth position, our country (265).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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