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Date Published: 06/05/2021
ARCHIVED - 6,317 new covid cases and 167 deaths across Spain in last 24 hours: May 5 Covid update
Spain’s pandemic continues its decline, according to the latest government figures published on May 5.
The latest figures published by the Spanish health ministry reveal that Spain’s accumulated incidence rate and hospital admissions have dropped once again as the number of new cases continue to decrease across most of the country’s regions and the vaccine rollout speeds up.
A further 6,317 new cases and 167 deaths were reported across Spain on May 5, an increase from the previous day (May 4), but representing a large drop in the country’s accumulated incidence rates.
Spain’s 14-day accumulated incidence rate now stands at 205.2 cases per 100,000 people, dropping from 235 cases per 100,000 10 days before, while the country’s seven-day incidence rate has also decreased by 6.3 per cent.
The latest figures bring the total number of cases reported to date in Spain to 3,551,262 and the number of deaths to date to 78,566.
The data showed that only two Spanish regions saw infections rise; La Rioja, which reported an increase of 4.8 per cent, and Aragon at 0.4 per cent.
Meanwhile, the areas with the largest drop in cases included two areas with high levels of contagion at the moment; Catalonia, whose rates fell by 3.7 per cent, and Madrid at 4.1 per cent.
Andalusia also saw cases decrease by 4.2 per cent, while Asturias’s fell by 6.8 per cent, and Navarra’s by 4.1 per cent. The region of Castilla y Leon reported a large decrease after officials removed 1,273 cases included in error on May 4.
The overall drop in Spain’s cases has also seen the number of people hospitalised with the virus fall. There are now 9,132 people admitted to hospital in Spain, 460 fewer than the day before, and 2,231 patients in intensive care units, 61 fewer than on Tuesday.
The fall is the largest daily decrease in both figures in almost two months, however the number of intensive care beds being used to treat the virus remains high across Spain at 22.3 per cent. Madrid remains the region with the highest intensive care unit occupancy rate at 41.9 per cent.
Spain’s Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, said the figures showed a, “a gentle downward trend at the national level.”
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