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Health experts believe that Spain is set for a “good winter” as the overall data continue to improve
Although there has been no movement in the cumulative incidence rate in the last few days, the data from the Ministry of Health indicates that the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to lose strength after the impact of the seventh wave began to lessen in mid-July.
In fact, the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies (CCAES), Fernando Simón, has expressed this week that if the current incidence of Covid is maintained, Spain should be set for a “good winter,” assuming no new variants appear.
Coronavirus infections
The Ministry of Health registered 9,489 new cases of coronavirus on Friday September 2, of which 5,530 were diagnosed in people over the age of 60, similar numbers to those seen in the previous report.
These data contrast strongly with the peak of the seventh wave, when more than 50,000 infections were confirmed.
Cumulative incidence rate
The 14-day cumulative incidence rate in people over the age of 60 has remained the same and stands at 153 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
The 7-day incidence in citizens aged 60 or over, which is now at 69 cases, registered a slight rebound last week, but has experienced another drop, indicating that the overall data should continue to improve.
Those over 80 years of age have the highest level of risk of contagion, with an incidence of 236.06 cases, followed by septuagenarians (163.14), while the lowest level of transmission recorded is that of those in their sixties (104.30). However, the number of infections in over 60s and over 70s has increased slightly this week.
Aragón continues to have the lowest incidence rate in Spain this week, with just 73.39 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Andalucia (95.45) and Navarra (96.45).
Every region has now dropped well below the 300-case threshold.
Hospitalisations and fatalities
There are currently 3,023 patients admitted to hospitals throughout Spain (a drop of almost 400), which translates into a 2.5% occupancy rate but it is the intensive care data that stands out again this week: just 210 critical patients are being treated in Spain’s ICUs, the lowest figure since the very beginning of the pandemic, representing an occupancy rate of 2.4%.
In the worst moments of the health crisis, more than 20% of intensive care beds were filled with Covid patients, with more than 2,000 patients being treated.
A further 117 Covid-related fatalities were reported in Friday’s update, bringing the overall death toll in Spain to 112,804 people.
The national average mortality rate from Covid in those over 59 years of age has fluctuated between 3.6% and 3.7% for the last few weeks, but with significant differences across communities: Castilla-La Mancha (5%), Aragón (4.8%), Madrid (4.5%) and Ceuta (4.4%) are the regions that far exceed the Spanish average.
Vaccination data
As of September 5, 92.8% of the population over the age of 12 is fully vaccinated against Covid, which means that a total of 39,145,640 people have now received two doses.
So far, 39,259,194 have received at least one dose, 93.1% of the population over 12 years of age.
Image: Ministerio de Sanidad
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