Health reports 21,908 new cases and 368 deaths, a record number for the second wave of the pandemic

This Thursday there are 368 deaths that the official count adds, a record number of deaths in the second wave.

It should also be remembered that 1,623 were added this Wednesday due to the update made by the Ministry of Health with an adjustment of the methodology, which added 5,105 cases and 1,326 deaths diagnosed before May 11.

The global number of deceased persons in our country since the beginning of this crisis (in the absence of integrating deaths in residences) is, therefore, 38,486.

In the last 7 days, deaths in our country have risen to 1,002

, a new record for the pandemic (something that we already mentioned yesterday when it was 888 in the last week).

By Autonomous Communities, Castilla y León (163) and Andalusia (158) continue to have more than 100 deaths in the last week, and Aragon (107) is also above 100.

They are followed by Asturias (86), Madrid (83) and Galicia (76).

This record of deaths is the worst parameter of the report of the Ministry of Health published this Thursday, which

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Thus, there are already a total of 1,306,316 people who have been infected in our country since the start of the pandemic.

Of the almost 22,000 confirmed cases, 9,606 correspond to cases diagnosed in the last 24 hours, a figure higher than the previous days.

By CCAA, the 2,075 in Madrid stand out, which almost doubles the following regions: Catalonia (1,238), the Basque Country (1,214) and Aragon (1,030).

Already behind Galicia (726), Andalusia (663) and Extremadura (531).

The cumulative incidence (AI) -number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days) decreases very slightly compared to the previous day and is 527.30.

Melilla (1,390.96), Navarra (1,140.61) and Aragón (1,095.29) remain soaring, while nine other autonomous communities are above the national average: Ceuta (942.47), Castilla y León (801, 53), La Rioja (784.10), Catalonia (742.42), Basque Country (686.17), Murcia (642.95), Extremadura (582.27), Castilla-La Mancha (551.78) and Andalusia (540.85).

Fernando Simón

, director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, pointed to a clear seasonality of the virus when he recalled that, while in the southern hemisphere, the pandemic is subsiding in almost all places, "although not all", "in the In the northern hemisphere, almost all the countries have a clear increase in transmission. "

"Our ascent is slower, more progressive," he said about Spain.

"It gives the impression that the increases are slower than in previous days," he valued, although he has asked for caution in interpreting the data due to the "delays" that communities may have when updating their data.

"The health systems will continue to suffer for at least 10, 14 more days

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has warned, in any case, about the high hospital pressure.

Bed occupancy data nationwide is 16.3% for general income and 29.2% in ICU.

"These are high figures," Simon has admitted.

Home confinements

Regarding domestic confinement, a measure that some communities have already requested and recommended to their population, Simón has said that,

, given the harshness of the measures implemented in many autonomous communities.

"What has been reflected in the media as total confinements" in other European countries, Simón has opined, "has actually been similar to ours."

Regarding the curfew, which is later in our country, he has argued that, "in Spain, it is being done around the hours that it is logical to do it in Spain."

In the communities that have implemented the toughest measures, stabilization is already being seen, the Health spokesman insisted.

Therefore, he concluded: "It is very possible that more than what we are doing is not necessary."

"Of course, the effectiveness depends on the observance", has qualified.

If current measures are found to be insufficient, he warned, "we will have to consider the options that remain."

It has also valued positively the option of partially confining the population: "Confinement by age can be considered, it seems to me a measure that can be useful."

The pandemic in hospitals

As for hospitalizations, today there are 20,281 patients admitted for Covid throughout Spain (44 patients less than yesterday).

More than half are from three communities: Catalonia (4,508), Andalusia (3,277) and Madrid (2,925).

Despite this very slight decrease compared to Wednesday, this figure has almost doubled in a month: on October 5 there were a total of 10,949 admitted by Covid in Spain.

In the last seven days a total of 4,796 have entered

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The worst figures are taken by Castilla y León (802) and Andalucía (752), well above the other autonomous communities (the third is Aragón, with 439).

Of those 4,796, 364 have been transferred to the ICU in the last week and 85 of them in the last 24 hours.

Thus, the total number of patients who have passed through the ICU since the onset of the pandemic is 13,913 and the number of hospitalized persons is 165,515 (the aforementioned Health methodology adjustment eliminated 15,056 hospitalizations and 2,185 ICU admissions from the total on Wednesday because "did not meet the criteria or corresponded to duplicate cases").

Regarding the healthcare capacity of hospitals, the average number of beds occupied by patients with coronavirus in Spain, not including other pathologies, is 16.35%.

Intensive care beds show a higher percentage: 29.20% (both parameters continue to grow slightly).

In this sense, La Rioja is of particular concern, with an ICU occupancy of 56.67%, Aragon (50.22%), Catalonia (41.68%), Melilla (41.67%), Asturias (41.22%) and Castilla y León (40.68%).

These figures keep 11 Autonomous Communities at alert level 4, the maximum risk established by the Interterritorial Council of the National Health System.

At the European level, little change.

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In fourth place, the United Kingdom (1,099,059), followed by Italy (790,377) and Germany (597,583).

For deaths, it is the United Kingdom that continues to lead with a total of 47,742, followed by Italy (39,764), and France (38,674) and Spain (38,486) that are very on par.

The AI ​​of Belgium (1,738.5) and that of the Czech Republic (1,462.3) continue to rise, and Switzerland grows dangerously, which already exceeds a thousand also (1,049).

Very closely goes France (812.2) and the following are the Netherlands (709.4), Poland (559) and Italy (537.9).

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