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Three weeks after the end of the year, the Covid-19 data in Spain continue to beat records for hospitalization and occupation of ICU places.

The last three days, in addition,

have been the three in which more infections have been registered

, although the figure on Friday was slightly lower than the record on Thursday.

Data from the Ministry of Health add another 42,885 diagnosed cases on Friday (on Thursday they were 44,357) and 400 new deaths from coronavirus (also below the 404 on Thursday).

In total, the number of infections in Spain since the beginning of the pandemic is already close to two and a half million: 2,499,560.

The document approved by the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities at the end of October, in the middle of the second wave, has become obsolete in this third.

Not because its indicators were not reasonable, but because they have been widely exceeded

: both the country as a whole and most regions have been in red or dark red for weeks, and the data continues to deteriorate.

A new high

Occupancy in the ICU, one of the indicators that takes the longest to reflect the lack of control of the epidemic,

has reached a new maximum of 37.61%

, thus already exceeding the maximum risk level (25%) in the data for the whole of Spain.

There are, in addition, seven autonomous communities, including

Madrid (46.24%) and Catalonia (49.51%)

, two of the most populated, which touch or exceed 50% occupancy in intensive care for Covid patients.

In other words, they almost double the red alert threshold.

Occupancy in general beds also continues to rise in the country's hospitals, with 21.63% dedicated to Covid patients.

In total, there are already 27,462 people admitted to Spain,

of which 3,908 require intensive care

.

Approximately half of these patients are hospitalized in Catalonia (5,016), Comunidad Valenciana (4,811) or Madrid (4,613).

Extremadura, at the head of the AI

Of the new cases added to the count

, 18,187 have been diagnosed the previous day

, a figure that, as in previous days, doubles that of the worst moments of the second wave.

Madrid, with 4,626 identified in 24 hours, is the community that contributes the most new infections, almost a quarter of the total.

They are followed by Castilla y León (2,575) and Catalonia (2,152).

In the last 14 days, 389,643 cases have been registered in Spain, which is equivalent to a cumulative incidence of 828.57 per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure that is also a record.

Extremadura (1,448.52) continues to lead the incidence data

, although there are five other autonomies that exceed a thousand: Murcia (1,332.96), Valencian Community (1,245.48), Castilla y León (1,215.23), La Rioja ( 1,208.34) and Castilla La Mancha (1,158.17).

All of them amply double the maximum risk threshold (500).

In fact, the data of the last days confirm that the document approved by the Ministry of Health and the autonomous communities at the end of October,

in the middle of the second wave, has become obsolete in this third

.

Not because its indicators were not reasonable, but because they have been widely exceeded: both the country as a whole and most regions have been in red or dark red for weeks, and the data continues to deteriorate.

In the latest weekly report from the Carlos III Health Institute, there are also worrying data.

In fact, the R number (instantaneous basic reproduction number (Rt), which reflects the average number of infections that each infected subject causes, is 1.18. In other words, the epidemic -because this value is above 1- continues to

grow.

the figure, in fact, reached on 8 January its highest value since the summer (1.36).

Two weeks later, the hospitals are suffering the effects of decontrol.

1,411 deaths in the last week

The number of deaths in the last week amounts to

1,411 for the whole of Spain

, a dramatic figure despite the fact that not all communities have updated it, so it will be even higher.

Friday's report also includes the analysis of the outbreaks, which reflects that in the last week there have been

216 outbreaks with 2,745 associated in social health centers

, traditionally the most vulnerable and in which the vaccination campaign has already begun.

The areas where more infections have occurred these days are

defined as "mixed" (616 outbreaks with 3,966 cases) and "social" (574 outbreaks and 3,831 identified positives).

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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