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The escalation of the coronavirus continues in Spain after a few weeks of apparent decline.
The Ministry of Health reported 13,873 positives and 218 deaths this Tuesday, raising the cumulative incidence in the last 14 days to 322.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, the highest recorded since the epidemic began in the country.
Studies show that between the end of March and the beginning of April the spread was much greater.
But the records were lower: only the most serious cases were counted, while now many asymptomatic and mild cases are also counted.
This leaves these weeks of October with the worst official figures in terms of diagnoses.
Deaths are still a long way off, reaching more than 900 in a single day in the worst days of the health crisis.
But if the cases continue to grow, the death toll will also grow, inevitably.
The previous step, the hospital pressure, has been rising unstoppably for weeks.
This statistic did not even notice the apparent decline in cases in the first weeks of October, which today seem more like a small plateau on a continuous climb.
This Tuesday, 11% of beds in Spanish hospitals were occupied by covid patients, a figure that doubles in intensive care.
But the trend of the line is not written.
Sources from the Ministry of Health acknowledge that its progress is unpredictable and that the enormous growth in Europe does not exactly give rise to optimism.
But everything will depend on the success of the measures that more and more autonomous communities are taking to stop the spread of the virus.
The trend is upward in all of them, except in Madrid, the only autonomy that has a lower accumulated incidence this Tuesday than the previous day, according to Health data.
In all the others it rises, even in the Canary Islands, the only one that registers less than 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (79.4) and that had been marking the most hopeful path.
At the other extreme, Navarra, which has been confined to the perimeter since Thursday, already exceeds one thousand (1003).
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