Covid diagnoses rise 25% in a week

Mass screening with antigen tests in the basic health area of ​​Son Serra, in Palma de Mallorca, last Sunday.CATI CLADERA / EFE

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With all the precautions in a day that follows a bridge of almost four days, as the Minister of Territorial Policy, Carolina Darias, has warned this Monday, the data from the latest report of the Ministry of Health on the coronavirus in Spain shows the progress of the pandemic.

If the data are compared with those of Monday 28, in a situation very similar to that of this January 4 (both after four days of holidays), it is seen that the reported cases have risen 25% in seven days, from 24,462 to 30,579, for a total of 1,958,844 since the start of the pandemic.

Measured in cumulative incidence in 14 days, which by covering a longer period allows to see the more consolidated trends, this rises from 246.19 to 272.22 in that time, a figure very far from 188.72 on December 10, as the minister recalled after the Interterritorial Health Council.

Although the rates of worsening are different by communities, there are already nine of the 19 territories (the 17 communities plus Ceuta and Melilla) above 250, the level of extreme risk.

If compared with the values ​​of a week ago, in all but the Valencian Community and the Basque Country this indicator has worsened.

Extremadura already exceeds 600 (it is at 604, 50% more than a week ago).

And the Balearic Islands are still above 500 (529.9).

Other communities whose incidence has increased more than 20% in one week are Aragón (29%), Cantabria (22%), Castilla-La Mancha (21%), Castilla y León (30%), Ceuta (80%), Melilla (20%), Murcia (51%) and La Rioja (39%).

And after two weeks of risk, this is also going to be, said in the same press conference the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, who pointed out that all the communities are very concerned about the situation, which, in addition, this Monday it has been reflected in the percentages of hospital and ICU beds occupied by people with covid.

The first of these parameters is 11.12% (the highest since the 11.52% of December 1) and 23% in intensive occupation, a figure that has not been reached since December 7.

Compared to Monday 28, for the situation to be equivalent, the increase is practically 10% in both indicators.

The only indicator that is better this Monday than seven days ago is that of deaths.

Between January 1 and 4, 241 deaths were reported, while between December 25 and 28 there were 298. The sum of this record since the start of the pandemic now reaches 51,078 deaths.

The worst thing is that the prospect, as Darias and Illa have pointed out, is that it will get worse in the coming weeks.

And this despite the tightening of measures in many communities.

The last ones, Aragon, which forces to bring forward the closure of all non-essential establishments at 20.00;

Castilla y León, which prohibits consuming in the premises of Segovia (it can only be done on terraces) and Catalonia, which prohibits travel between municipalities from January 7 for 10 days, as well as the closure of non-essential establishments.

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