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All Covid indicators in Spain have been on the increase since Easter week
Since the Ministry of Health decided to stop counting Covid cases among the general population, the evolution of the pandemic has been focused on two vital factors: the incidence in the over 60s age group and hospital occupation. Both indicators have been rising steadily since Easter and the percentage of coronavirus patients admitted to hospital has gone from ‘low’ to ‘medium’ risk on Tuesday April 26.
The upward trend was predicted by most experts: since the end of March, people with mild symptoms no longer have to isolate and just last week, the Spanish government decreed the end of mandatory mask-wearing indoors. Both decisions, combined with increased travel and gathering crowds during Holy Week, pointed to an inevitable rise in Covid data.
Cumulative incidence rate
The latest health report released on April 26 shows that the 14-day cumulative incidence rate in people over 60 has grown to 608 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, a 20.3% increase compared to last Tuesday.
Asturias, one of the communities in Spain with the oldest populations, has a cumulative incidence among people over 60 of 1,205 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and its hospital occupancy of coronavirus patients (11.2%) is practically double the Spanish average.
Madrid continues to be one of the regions with the lowest figure, but this has still shot up to 323 cases from just 291 on Friday. Andalucía now has the lowest figure of all after dropping three points to stand at 313 cases.
Coronavirus infections
The Ministry of Health has reported 47,421 new cases of coronavirus, of which 23,137 have been diagnosed in older people. This brings the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 11,833,457.
Hospitalisations
There are currently 6,455 patients admitted to hospitals throughout Spain with Covid, which represents 5.2% of all beds and an increase of 14.5%.
The only indicator that has continued to fall in recent weeks is ICU occupancy but this is also now on the rise: 364 patients are currently admitted, 25 more than at the end of last week.
While hospital rates in general have moved up a risk level, intensive care remains at the low risk level (at 4.05%) and is still a long way off medium risk, which would require figures of 10% or above.
Spain has already exceeded the limits that the Covid experts imposed to change to the new surveillance system: to do so, all the hospital indicators had to be at a low level, and one has now risen to medium.
However, this does not mean an automatic reverse gear and the relaxed measure will remain in force “as long as there is no significant change in the trend that indicates uncontrolled circulation of SARS-CoV-2.”
As of last Friday, Asturias is at level 3 (high) out of four risk categories. Another eight communities are at medium risk: Galicia, Castilla y León, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Navarra, the Valencian Community, Murcia and the Canary Islands. The rest are at low risk.
Fatalities
A further 319 Covid-related fatalities have been reported, which brings the overall death toll since the beginning of the pandemic to 104,227.
Vaccination data
As of April 22, a total of 39,033,917 people, representing 92.5% of the population over the age of 12 are now double jabbed. In addition, 39,210,144 people, or 92.9%, have had at least one vaccine.
Now read: How to get a Covid passport and how to book an appointment for a vaccine or booster jab in Spain
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