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One more day continues the decline in the figures within this t

trend of decline of the third wave

, according to the figures published this Thursday by the Ministry of Health.

Thus, the cumulative incidence (AI) stands at 540.30.

The majority of the autonomous communities continue to decline at different rates, and all remain below 1,000.

With the highest AI is still Comunidad Valenciana (777.07, down more than 100 points in 24 hours), followed by Castilla y León (719.76, down more than 70 points), Melilla (742.31) and La Rioja (645.52, down around 125 points).

Still above 500 are six autonomies (one less than yesterday), although all in decline: Madrid (669.82), Andalusia (635.21), Castilla-La Mancha (577.02), Asturias (517.50) , Aragon (510.73) and Ceuta (503.67).

In contagions this descending line is also observed.

Thus,

in the last 24 hours, 17,853 new cases have been registered

, a figure slightly lower than the previous day and much lower than what had been recorded in recent weeks with more than 30,000 daily infections.

Diagnosed the day before are 7,181 (2,323 in Madrid, 793 in Catalonia, 737 in Castilla y León and the rest of the Autonomous Communities below).

The total number of infections since the pandemic began in Spain is 3,041,454.

The death toll, as we have been pointing out, still does not reflect this decline in infections and incidence, but rather continues to show the harshest face of this third wave.

The figure for this Thursday is lower than the previous day or Tuesday (766), when the record was broken from the first wave, but it is still too high a number after which there are people with names and surnames: 513. In the The last seven days are 1,689 (325 in the Valencian Community, 261 in Andalusia, and over 100, Castilla y León with 172, Castilla-La Mancha with 167 and Galicia with 141), which

increases the total of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 64,217

.

The burden of care continues to ease but at a very slow pace.

The percentage of beds occupied by patients with coronavirus in Spain drops exactly one point and one tenth in 24 hours and stands at 18.27% (a figure that exceeds the maximum risk threshold of 15%).

The percentage of

Intensive Care beds

moves one point compared to the previous day, standing at 40.51% (also well above the threshold for very high risk, which is more than 25%).

As always, we must remember that these figures are only for Covid patients, we must add those who occupy ICU beds due to other pathologies or interventions and, therefore, the degree of saturation is even higher, almost 100% in some Autonomous Communities .

Thus, in terms of ICU bed occupancy, the most saturated communities are: La Rioja (63.22%, down more than two percentage points), Comunidad Valenciana (51.79%, down more than 3 points), Madrid (50, 46%, decreased by less than one point), Castilla y León (50.25%, decreased by one point), Castilla-La Mancha (46.37%, decreased by more than three points), Catalonia (44.47%, decreased somewhat more than one point), Melilla (41.18%, down more than 11 points after not changing anything for several days), Aragón (38.14%, it remains), Asturias (37.54%, up a few tenths) , Andalusia (36.66%, down a few tenths), Basque Country (36.61%, up more than one and a half points), Ceuta (35.29%, a figure that did not vary in several days), Balearic Islands (35, 12%, down just over a point and a half), Galicia (30.11%, down a few tenths), Murcia (30%, up more than two points) and Extremadura (29.77%, down more than one point and means, medium).

That is, only the Canary Islands (16.10%), Navarra (18.66%) and Cantabria (20%) do not exceed the maximum risk threshold of 25%.

Our hospitals are beginning to decrease the numbers of hospitalized patients and ICUs very slowly, following the decline in infections and the accumulated incidence.

But it is not yet reflected in the care burden borne by hospitals since these patients require admission for a long time and therefore the figures are cumulative.

To date, there are 23,500 patients admitted for Covid

, a figure that continues to decline little by little as fewer patients are admitted and those who have been in the hospital for the longest time recover (or die).

Of those more than 23,000, 4,340 correspond to Madrid, 3,904 to Andalusia, 3,782 to Catalonia, 3,025 to the Valencian Community and below Castilla y León (1,856) and Castilla-La Mancha (1,160).

In the last 24 hours, 1,670 patients have been admitted (5,226 in the last seven days).

In the last 24 hours, 157 patients have been referred to the ICU (414 in the last seven days), a figure considerably lower than that of the previous day (285) and days past.

Therefore, since the beginning of the pandemic there are already 273,717 total hospitalized and 23,829 total ICU cases.

At the European level, few changes in the positions in the contagion ranking.

The first country is Russia, which has already exceeded 4 million infections (4,012,710), closely followed by the United Kingdom (3,985,161);

in third place, France (3,385,622);

and fourth, also already above 3 million, Spain (3,041,454).

Quinta, Italy (2,668,266);

and in sixth place, Turkey, with 2,548,195.

They are followed by Germany (2,310,233) and, below two million, Poland (1,563,645) and Ukraine (1,253,055).

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 (114,851, 1,001 deaths in the last 24 hours).

It is followed by Italy (92,338), France (80,443), Russia (78,134), Spain (64,217) and Germany (63,635, 666 deaths in the last 24 hours).

Regarding AI, it remains very high (above 1,000 and with the worst AI in Europe since January 21) in Portugal

, although it continues to decline slowly and stands at 1,030.9, more than 100 points less in 24 hours ).

In the Czech Republic there is also a high incidence, it began to decrease until last Friday, when it began to rise again very slightly and continues to do so (942.1);

followed by Spain (540.3) and the United Kingdom (405.3), both countries falling.

Behind are France, which barely moves (416, down two points compared to the previous day), Sweden (389.8), Ireland (307.7) and the Netherlands (305.9).

Simon warns about the relaxation of restrictions: "Not all, not all at once"

"At the moment we are in a very, very complicated situation," said Fernando Simón, director of CCAES, in his appearance before the media.

Alluding to the decrease in infections and the accumulated incidence, the epidemiologist has stated that

"we have to be very clear that this is not over

.

"

"In some autonomous communities, it could be that some of these measures could be relaxed. Of course, not all, not all at the same time," said Simón.

"What the WHO says is logical: be very careful with de-escalation," he responded, alluding to the international body's warning.

Along with Simón, Silvia Calzón, Secretary of State for Health, has appeared, who has highlighted that the rate of vaccination in Spain places our country, in terms of the number of doses already administered, in the 12th place in the world and the fourth in the European Union.

As he has said, if measured by the number of people who have already received the two doses, Spain is in seventh place worldwide.

The Secretary of State has estimated that

throughout February "around four million doses"

of the three vaccines that are already approved in Spain will be received.

Of these, 1.8 million doses are from Moderna, a pharmaceutical company from which 228,000 doses have been received "this afternoon."

When they are distributed to regional governments "the 3 million doses delivered to the autonomous communities for their administration will be exceeded," the Secretary of State has valued.

Regarding the Pfizer vaccine, Calzón has estimated that 1.7 million doses will arrive in February and another 2.7 million during the month of March.

"If they had told us that at this point, we were going to have vaccines available, few of us would have given credit," he insisted.

On the controversy surrounding the comments that have emerged from a judge in the Basque Country about the scarce training and innovation of experts in Public Health, Simón has commented that "any measure that is effective, be it from the Middle Ages, from the of Stone or of the future, we will use it ".

For his part, Calzón has defended the "invisible" work of epidemiologists.

"Many colleagues and companions have had no difference between Saturday and Sunday, practically every day of the year has been Monday."

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