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Cases and income grow in almost all of Spain and exceed local measures

2020-10-23T22:39:08.229Z


The threshold of 150 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which the European ECDC considers a maximum alert, was exceeded on 20 August. Since then the virus has not stopped its expansion


At the end of June, Spain had a 14-day cumulative incidence below 10 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The confinement had worked, the virus circulated little and there was talk of some outbreaks at parties, family reunions, nursing homes, agricultural and meat companies ... A month later the active outbreaks were 120 and the infections had multiplied by five.

The threshold of 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants was exceeded on August 13.

Spain is now at a cumulative incidence of 362. The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) paints its maps dark red (maximum alert) starting at 150. Contagions exceed the increasingly restrictive measures that the autonomous communities impose.

Madrid has clearly reduced the contagions - the reported cases - since then, but in the rest of the territories the trend is upward.

Hospitalizations for patients are also growing throughout Spain.

Yesterday there were 14,539 admitted, according to the daily report of the Ministry of Health, 10,000 more than on August 20, when this series of data started.

12.1% of all hospital beds are occupied by a single pathology, covid-19.

In ICUs, 22.5% of beds are dedicated to these patients, which is causing scheduled surgeries to be suspended.

The pandemic is leaving 140 fatalities a day on average.

For the past five weeks, more than 100 people have died from covid-19 every day.

The hardest hit

Navarra, La Rioja, Aragón and Castilla y León are the communities with the worst epidemiological situation.

All of them exceed 500 cases diagnosed per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days, although Navarra doubles that barrier, with 1,063 cases.

They are also autonomies that have taken drastic measures such as perimeter confinement, which implies the prohibition of entering or leaving a territory.

In the case of Navarra and La Rioja, this closure affects the entire community.

In Aragon, the three capitals are confined: Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel.

Castilla y León currently has four of its nine capitals with entry and exit prohibitions: Salamanca, Burgos, León and Palencia.

Large populations such as Ponferrada, Miranda de Ebro and Aranda de Duero are also confined.

The poor situation of these communities is also evident in the positivity, the percentage of diagnostic tests that are positive and that according to the WHO should be below 5% to consider that the epidemic is controlled.

In Aragon this figure is 20%;

in Castilla y León in 18%;

in Navarra it is 15% and in La Rioja it is 8%.

Occupancy in hospitals, and especially in intensive care units, is very high in these four territories.

Only Navarra (32%) is below 35% of ICU beds.

Castilla y León has already surpassed it (35.2%) and La Rioja and Aragón left that threshold behind days ago, with 37% and 43%, respectively.

Castilla y León plans to approve a night curfew, which will limit mobility in the region as of today and which the courts must ratify.

Navarra is waiting if the application of the curfew is agreed throughout Spain.

La Rioja has also assured that it will not apply this measure until there is consensus among all the communities, as well as Aragon.

All four voted in favor on Thursday at the Interterritorial Commission.

The 'third wave' of the Basque Country

The pandemic in Euskadi is exceeding all the red lines of the first wave.

The community appeared to have managed to bend the curve of the second wave in September after applying local restrictions and declaring a state of health emergency in August.

But in the last week the situation has gotten out of control again, and it begins to be seen in the data of hospitalizations and deaths.

The Basque Country yesterday registered the record of infections by covid-19 of the entire pandemic with 1,207 cases in the last hours and the positivity rate has shot up to 8.5%, a percentage that had not been reached since the end of August.

The accumulated incidence has also increased to 452.5, above the 418.3 the previous day (according to data from the Basque Government, which differ from those provided by Health).

In Gipuzkoa, the most affected territory, the barrier of 600 (626) has been surpassed, when on Thursday it was 577.

The basic reproductive index (R0), which measures how many people a sick person can infect, is 1.27 (below 1 the pandemic is considered controlled).

Despite this scenario in which there are 28 towns with more than 5,000 inhabitants that exceed the rate of 500 infected per 100,000, the Government has only been able to recommend that citizens neither enter nor leave the towns, when it wanted to prohibit it.

The state of alarm is looking for that legal umbrella, but the lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu has asked Sánchez that this time the command be shared.

Madrid, back to selective restrictions

The epidemiological situation in Madrid has been improving for several weeks, but it is still bad.

With 422 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, it is above the Spanish average, which also exceeds the positivity of diagnostic tests (12%).

This last indicator has improved from the 20% it reached in September.

The occupancy of ICUs is particularly worrisome, which is close to 40% (39%).

Only Aragon, with 43%, and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla —the latter has 67% of ICU positions occupied by patients with the virus— surpass it.

Madrid announced yesterday its own version of the curfew, which will come into effect when the state of alarm decreed by the central government ends, at 4:48 pm today.

At that time, the perimeter confinement of the capital and nine other municipalities in the region will cease to be in force.

These measures are replaced by others: the regional government prohibits meetings between people who do not live at the same address between midnight and six in the morning, both in public and private places.

The hours of bars and restaurants, therefore, are extended by one hour.

If during the alarm state they should have been closed at 11pm (and could not receive new customers after 10pm), now they can remain open until midnight.

The regional government returns to the system of restrictions for basic health zones that it had in place before the government declared a state of alarm in its territory.

It will confine 32 of these areas on the perimeter (there are 286 throughout the territory) as of Monday, which will prevent its inhabitants from leaving and entering those areas, which are delimited by the area of ​​influence of each health center.

The criterion to do so is to exceed 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (previously there were 1,000).

Catalonia, Andalusia and Asturias get worse again

Catalonia and Castilla-La Mancha are at “extreme” risk, according to the classification of the Ministry of Health.

They have a high positivity (12% Catalonia and 15% Castilla-La Mancha) and in Catalonia the occupation of ICUs is beginning to be of great concern, which is already at 31%.

The incidence of Murcia is above the Spanish average, while the positivity is below and within what the Health traffic light considers medium risk.

On Wednesday, restrictions came into effect in 12 municipalities and several neighborhoods in the most populated cities, Murcia and Cartagena, for 7 days.

Asturias, Extremadura and Andalusia have worsened in the last 10 days.

Asturias asked yesterday for the state of alarm to apply the curfew in its territory and announced the perimeter closures of the main cities, Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés.

The accumulated incidence yesterday exceeded 300 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Infections are increasing rapidly.

A week ago the incidence was at 207. The occupancy of the ICU is increasing: from 13.5% last Friday to 16% of this.

Andalusia announced a night curfew, for now in Granada (between 11.00 at night and six in the morning), which must receive the approval of the Superior Court of Justice, and which will then be studied for the rest of the provinces.

With 327 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, Andalusia is below the Spanish average, but positivity is high (16.5%) and hospital occupancy is growing.

It stands at 1,794 patients, 513 more than a week ago, which shows the rapid spread of the virus.

The 40,000 residents of Écija, in Seville, have been confined in this community since October 15.

Extremadura also remains slightly below the Spanish average in incidence, but the positivity is high (12%).

Since midnight on Thursday, restrictions have been active in several municipalities, including Mérida and Plasencia, with a reduction in capacity in places and for religious worship.

The islands and Valencia hold, Extremadura and Cantabria worsen the infections

The United Kingdom and Germany have decided this week to exclude the Canary Islands from the list of risky destinations for their travelers.

The archipelago has the lowest cumulative incidence in Spain: 81 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

It is the only one below 100. It is also the only one with a positivity below the 5% recommended by the WHO, and the stress of its hospitals is among the lowest, only improved by Galicia.

In September restrictions were decreed on some of its islands.

Now only Tenerife continues with limitations, such as the closing of bars and restaurants at midnight.

The Balearic Islands are also in an epidemiological situation of "medium risk", as described by the traffic light approved this week by the Interterritorial Health Council to take homogeneous measures throughout Spain.

With a cumulative incidence of 151 -but on the rise-, a positivity of 6% and 14% of ICU beds occupied by patients with coronavirus, the archipelago has just approved new restrictions: as of Saturday it will not be possible to consume in the bar of bars or restaurants and there will be a maximum of six people per table.

The Valencian Community, with a medium risk situation, has not waited for the Government and has decreed a night curfew until December 9.

This community has a cumulative incidence of 153, but its positivity is already classified as high risk according to the Health traffic light: 13% of those analyzed last week were infected.

The hospital situation, on the other hand, is more reassuring: the percentage of occupied ICU beds is 13%.

Galicia has a low incidence if compared to the average, but high to control transmission, with 191. The hospital situation is the most comfortable of all the communities.

It only has 5% of the beds occupied by coronavirus patients;

7% in the case of ICU, and both data have improved slightly.

The Galician president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assured yesterday that his government is in favor of applying mobility and nighttime restrictions, but he refused to call them "curfew" so as not to create alarm.

Galicia has already applied many restrictions despite its relative good situation, but hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise.

The entire territory is on level 2, which reduces capacity and the occupation of spaces.

In addition, Ourense was confined to the perimeter on October 8 and the entire province has restrictions on the mobility and permanence of groups of people on public roads since the 22nd.

Cantabria, with an incidence of 225, is experiencing a significant rebound in recent days, after cases began to decline at the end of September.

Information about the coronavirus

- Here you can follow the last hour on the evolution of the pandemic

- This is how the coronavirus curve evolves in the world

- Download the tracking application for Spain

- Search engine: The new normal by municipalities

- Guide to action against the disease

Source: elparis

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