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The Ministry of Health has notified this Friday, with data provided by the autonomous communities, 57,635 new cases of coronavirus (

1,591 positive fewer than the previous balance

), of which 31,499 have occurred in people over 60 years of age.

Specifically, 2,735 less than in last Tuesday's report, when 34,236 new cases were registered.

In recent days,

a downward trend in Covid infections seems to be consolidating

which, if it continues, would reflect that the seventh wave has already reached its maximum peak and is beginning to decline.

Waiting for what the next Health reports reflect, the truth is that the month of

July began with 84,146 cases of coronavirus, almost twenty-seven thousand more than today.

The incidence among those over 60 years of age, a population group on which the Covid surveillance and control strategy has focused since last March, has also decreased compared to the previous report, although very timidly.

If on Tuesday the 14-day incidence was 1,255 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, already reflecting a certain drop (on July 6 the AI ​​was 1,225 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), today that figure reaches 1,158 cases.

Regarding hospitalizations, they also drop slightly:

Health has recorded 11,713 people admitted, a

thousand less than in Tuesday's report.

In the case of ICUs, there are 513 people (five more than in the previous record), in this case the number of people in intensive care has risen.

Despite the decrease in infections, both in global figures and in those over 60 years of age,

the number of deaths from coronavirus has almost doubled in the latest report.

The Ministry has recorded

428

deaths, while last Tuesday 292 were reported.

Since the pandemic began, the total number of infected in Spain has already risen to 13,090,476 people.

Madrid

once again tops the list of the most affected territories with

9,950

, despite having ranked second in the previous report (7,597).

Catalonia

reaches

8,523

positives, six hundred more than three days ago, followed by the

Valencian Community

with

6,495

, almost a thousand less than in the previous report.

The rest of the territories do not exceed 5,000 infections.

In the case of Andalusia, the data has dropped drastically in the latest reports, going from 7,572 a week ago to 4,121 today.

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