ARCHIVED - A week without coronavirus deaths in Murcia
Active case numbers rise in Murcia but fewer people are receiving hospital treatment
The level of coronavirus contagion in the Region of Murcia has remained fairly steady for the last couple of weeks, but as the vaccination campaign progresses there are signs that the pandemic is becoming less lethal and that those falling ill are in younger age brackets, and in Thursday’s daily update it was confirmed that for the first time since August no Covid-related fatalities have been reported for a week.
During the third wave of infection in January the weekly death toll in Murcia rose at one point to 162, but the improvement since then has been very marked indeed. The latest bulletin published by the regional health authorities reports 86 new cases (at one point in January the daily total topped 2,000), including 30 in the municipality of Cartagena, 25 in Murcia and 3 in Torre Pacheco.
This caused a rise in the number of known active cases to 692, but with the proportion of them related to younger adults rising the pressure on hospitals eased slightly: there are now 69 Covid patients receiving hospital treatment, 29 of them in intensive care, both figures having fallen since the previous day.
Murcia continues to report the third lowest 14-day incidence rate among Spain’s 17 regions with 63 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure bettered only in the neighbouring Comunidad Valenciana (32) and the Balearics (52).
Meanwhile, 25.4 per cent of the population of Murcia have now received at least one dose of coronavirus vaccine, and 11.3 per cent are fully immunized.
Latest data as reported on Thursday 13th May 2021:
New cases reported in the last 24 hours: 86
Confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic: 111,494
Active cases: 692
Patients in home isolation with mild symptoms: 623
Hospital patients: 69
Patients in ICU: 29
Total cured: 109,206
Total deaths: 1,596
People with at least one vaccine dose: 382,925 (25.4% of the population)
People fully vaccinated: 170,427 (11.3%)