ARCHIVED - Slight rise in new cases on Wednesday and eight fatalities; Murcia Covid March 3
Hospital admissions continue to slowly fall
Although the number of new coronavirus cases detected in the Murcia region remains consistently lower than during the middle of January, there was a slight rise in the number of active cases in the region on Tuesday (figures published the following day, Wednesday) with the 98 new cases detected exceeding the patients recovering and increasing the active cases by 14 to 1,124.
The positivity rate remains low at 2.96 per cent of the 3,315 PCR tests undertaken, but this is a slight rise, always an indicator that raises concern shortly after elements of the hostelry sector have been permitted to re-open.
Of the 98 new cases, 16 correspond to the municipality of Murcia, 10 to Caravaca de la Cruz, 10 to Cartagena, 9 to Lorca, 8 to Alhama de Murcia, 6 to Cieza, 5 to Torre Pacheco, 4 to San Javier, 4 to San Pedro del Pinatar, 4 to Totana, 3 to Abarán and 3 to Mula, with the remainder spread around the region in smaller quantities.
Data at a glance as reported on Wednesday:
New positive cases reported in the last 24 hours: 98
Confirmed cases since the beginning of the outbreak; 106,429
Total number of active cases: 1,124
Patients in home isolation with mild symptoms: 920
Total number of hospitalisations: 204
Total number in ICU intensive care units : 73
Total cured: 103,807
Total deaths: 1,498
Testing: total of 913,482 PCR and antigen tests and 100,808 serological tests to date
Fatalities: During the latest 24 hour period, eight additional fatalities have been reported as a direct result of coronavirus; six men and two women, aged 78, 52, 82, 69, 54, 79, 84 and 80, three of them from Murcia, two from Cieza and the remainder from Fortuna, Santomera and Totana.
Their deaths bring the total number of covid fatalitiess in the region since the pandemic began to 1,498.
Hospitals: The situation within the hospitals of the region continued to improve on Tuesday, with 13 patients discharged, taking the total number of covid admissions down to 204, with 73 in intensive care units.