ARCHIVED - No Spanish regions remain at extreme risk levels of Covid contagion: Update June 9
Four territories in Spain are now classified as being at low risk as the figures improve
The decrease in coronavirus infection rates in Spain as a whole continues to be a very gradual one but the latest Ministry of Health update published on Wednesday evening reports the achievement of a significant milestone as Madrid became the last of the country’s 17 regions to abandon the “extreme risk” zone.
This came about as a result of the proportion of beds occupied by Covid patients in intensive care units finally dropping below 25 per cent in Madrid, the 14-day incidence rate in and around the national capital having dropped below the threshold of 250 cases per 100,000 inhabitants some time ago. At the same time, across the country just under 11 per cent of ICU beds are now occupied by patients who have tested positive for Covid-19, while in all hospital beds the proportion has dipped to only 3 per cent.
Regional incidence rates: four territories in the “new normal” zone
In terms of incidence rates, the national figure dropped another couple of points in the latest bulletin to 111.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, with the highest data still reported in the regions of La Rioja (202), Andalucía (188), the Basque Country (175) and the north African enclave of Melilla (146). At the other end of the scale, though, four territories now boast contagion rates indicative of the “new normal” – the Comunidad Valenciana (39.8), the Balearics (41.8), Ceuta (46.3) and Galicia (48.1), and the Region of Murcia is not far away with a figure of 54.4.
The Wednesday bulletin reports a further 4,427 confirmed cases of coronavirus and another 23 fatalities, taking the official Ministry total since the start of the pandemic last spring to 80,332, although as many as 11 regions report no further additions to the total in the previous 24 hours.
Despite the threat of new variants such as the “Indian strain” it appears that the mass immunization campaign is having a positive effect on the situation in Spain, and the latest figures show that almost 43 per cent of the population have now received at least one vaccine dose.