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The downward trend of the third wave continues in Spain, according to the data published this Monday by the Ministry of Health.
The AI continues to decline and stands at 667.33.
For the first time since January 8, no autonomous community exceeds 1,000 incidence points
.
Thus, Valencian Community follows in first position with 994.99, followed by Castilla y León (936.26) and La Rioja (929.30).
Still above 500 are 11 communities: Melilla (846.37), Madrid (800.90), Andalusia (780.82), Castilla-La Mancha (770.29), Murcia (613.16), Galicia (603 , 48), Aragon (599.49), Asturias (599.24), Ceuta (546.14), Extremadura (542.38) and the Basque Country (516.18).
The downward line is also observed in the number of infections.
Since Friday, 47,095 new cases have been registered
, a figure much lower than that of previous Monday.
Last Monday 79,686 cases were registered (the previous one almost at the peak of the third wave were 93,822).
Only 3,218 cases were diagnosed the previous day (551 in the Basque Country, 466 in Castilla y León, 371 in Catalonia and 336 in Madrid), which brings the total number of cases in our country since the start of the pandemic to 2,989,085 .
The same cannot be said for the deceased: 909 as of Friday
.
It is the highest number on a Monday since the first wave (762 were reported last Monday and 767 the previous, the highest numbers so far).
Death figures will still remain high for several days, although infections and incidence decline, reflecting the data from previous weeks and the burden our hospitals bear.
Registered in the last seven days are 1,580 deaths, which adds up to a total of 62,295 deaths in Spain in what we have been pandemic.
There are still no major changes in the burden of care in our health system and it is that we have only been decreasing infections for a few days and these patients need weeks of hospitalization and ICU, so the figures are cumulative (that is why it is important to continue lowering the contagions and do not upload them by relaxing the measures).
The percentage of beds occupied by patients with coronavirus in Spain drops a little more than half a percentage point
compared to Friday and stands at 21.56% (a figure that exceeds the maximum risk threshold of 15%).
The percentage of intensive care beds barely moved a few tenths in these three days, standing at 43.16% (also well above the threshold for very high risk, which is more than 25%).
Once again, we emphasize that these figures are only for Covid patients, we must add those who occupy ICU beds for other pathologies or interventions and, therefore, the degree of saturation is even higher, 100% or more in some autonomies.
Thus, in terms of ICU bed occupancy, the most saturated communities are:
La Rioja (65.52%, down two points)
, Valencian Community (58.97%), Melilla (52.94%), Madrid (52.23 %, remains), Castilla-La Mancha (51.79%, down three points), Castilla y León (51.73%, down two points), Catalonia (46.97%, down less than two points), Balearic Islands (39.34%, down more than five points), Aragon (38.98%, up more than two points), Andalusia (37.23%, it remains), Asturias (36.64%, down less than one point percentage), Basque Country (36%, up one and a half points), Ceuta (35.29%), Extremadura (34.88%, down almost six points), Murcia (33.67%) and Galicia (32.66 %, it keeps).
That is, only the Canary Islands (17.90%), Navarra (23.13%) and Cantabria (24.62%, which rises almost one point)
do not exceed the maximum risk threshold of 25%, which does not mean that be well.
The number of hospitalizations and admissions to the ICU maintain this same line of high figures.
To date there are 27,739 patients admitted for Covid, a figure slightly lower than in previous days (since January 22, with 27,462 hospitalized, this parameter did not drop below 30,000).
Of those more than 27,000, 4,856 correspond to Madrid, 4,540 to Andalusia, 4,523 to Catalonia, 3,883 to the Valencian Community and below Castilla y León (2,203) and Castilla-La Mancha (1,460).
Since Friday, 3,508 patients have been admitted (5,286 in the last seven days).
306 patients have been referred to the ICU since Friday
(439 in the last seven days), a figure slightly lower than that of the two previous Mondays (the last, 355 and the previous, 357).
Therefore, since the beginning of the pandemic, there are already 266,763 total hospitalized and 23,154 total ICU cases.
At the European level, few changes in the positions in the contagion ranking.
The first country is Russia (3,967,281), closely followed by the United Kingdom (3,945,680) and in third place France (3,337,048).
Fourth Spain (2,989,085), fifth Italy (2,636738) and sixth Turkey with 2,524,786.
They are followed by Germany (2,288,545) and below two million Poland (1,550,255) and Ukraine (1,244,849).
By number of deaths, the United Kingdom continues to occupy the first place, being the only country in Europe that exceeds 100,000 deaths with some difference over the rest (112,465, 2,215 deaths since Friday).
They are followed by Italy (91,273), France (78,965), Russia (76,661), Spain (62,295) and Germany (61,675, with 1,078 deaths since Friday).
As for AI, it is still through the roof in Portugal, a country that could contain the first wave and was set as a model, but this time it
has the worst AI in Europe since January 21
, although it continues to decline very slowly and stands at 1,257.5.
In the Czech Republic there is also a high incidence, although it was decreasing slowly until Friday, when it registered a slight increase that has continued over the weekend (924.1, just 13 points);
followed by Spain (667.3) and the United Kingdom (447.5), both countries falling.
Behind are France (423, a slight decrease of 4 points), Sweden (399.8), Ireland (333.7) and the Netherlands (334.4).
Contagions and deaths:
The downward line is also observed in the number of infections.
Since Friday, 47,095 new cases have been registered, a figure much lower than that of previous Monday.
Last Monday 79,686 cases were registered (the previous one almost at the peak of the third wave were 93,822)
.
Only 3,218 cases were diagnosed the previous day (551 in the Basque Country, 466 in Castilla y León, 371 in Catalonia and 336 in Madrid), which brings the total number of cases in our country since the start of the pandemic to 2,989,085 .
The same cannot be said for the deceased: 909 as of Friday.
It is the highest number on a Monday since the first wave (
762 were reported
last Monday
and 767 the previous
, the highest numbers so far).
Death figures will still remain high for several days, although infections and incidence decline, reflecting the data from previous weeks and the burden our hospitals bear.
Registered in the last seven days are 1,580 deaths, which adds up to a total of 62,295 deaths in Spain in what we have been pandemic.
"We are in a period of decline in transmission, but we continue to have very, very high levels of incidence," said Fernando Simón, director of CCAES.
"Although the trend is favorable, what would be dangerous is to think that we are at low risk levels
. We are at very, very high risk levels," he warned.
"Practically the entire Spanish territory would be at maximum risk
,
" he
insisted, referring to the indicators approved in the autumn by the Interterritorial Council.
"The evolution is favorable, but we cannot lower our guard at all", Simón has summarized.
"Today's data is slightly lower in terms of ICU occupancy compared to Thursday and last Friday
," he indicated, which could suggest that the peak of hospitalizations has been reached during these days.
However, the occupancy percentages are still skyrocketing: "There are at least six communities that are still with occupancy levels above 50%, they are very high levels," the Health spokesperson stressed.
"We will not see a clear downward trend in the deceased until, probably, the end of this week," he
has advanced on the number of deaths, as long as the current downward trend continues, he has qualified.
Will there be a fourth wave?
Asked about the record of outbreaks in educational centers, Simón has valued that, "although there have been more outbreaks, it is worth maintaining educational activity", since "schools are still the safest places in the community."
"There is no more transmission in schools than in the community and, therefore, they remain safer places than the rest of the community," he argued.
"Schools are still an activity worth maintaining
.
"
"Of course it is possible that there will be a fourth wave,"
Simón has admitted, but has clarified: "The probability of a next wave being very fast in the ascent is less and less", given that the vaccination campaign continues its course.
"With every week that passes, the probability that this wave is big and fast decreases."
It has warned, however, that "if the British variant occupies the dominant space" in a few weeks, the eventual fourth wave "could accelerate a bit."
Regarding the next holiday period, he indicated: "At Easter, things can be done if we are at the right level; if not, no."
"They are immune to disease"
Regarding vaccines, Simón stressed that "we are increasing the number of people who
are immune to the disease"
, and pointed out that the decision of the Public Health commission not to administer the Oxford vaccine to people over 55 years of age does not change substantially planned plans.
"It changes the moment when vaccination is started in some groups, not the vaccination strategy," he assured.
Asked if the decision on which population groups will be vaccinated in the second phase will be left to the autonomous communities, Simón replied that
"there is a common strategy
."
In this sense, he has defended that some communities have defined their own priorities during these days so as not to stop the rate of vaccination.
"What we are not going to do is stop vaccinating for a few days, although later we return to the common strategy. That is the logical thing to do."
Simón has reviewed the latest data on more aggressive variants in Spain.
Of the British, 479 cases have been sequenced with the complete variant.
"We know there are more, but they have not been officially notified to the Ministry."
In addition, two cases of the South African variant have been observed.
"In principle, with the information available to date
, they would not have produced any secondary cases, which is very good news," said Simón.
Finally, there is a diagnosed case of the Brazilian variant, which was identified and isolated at the airport.
"With which, in principle, it should not have caused transmission."
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