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Date Published: 29/10/2021
ARCHIVED - Spain Covid update October 28: cumulative incidence approaches medium risk
The rise of infections in Spain hasn’t increased hospital pressure so far
Having spent three weeks at the low-risk coronavirus level, Spain is inching ever closer to the medium-risk category once again as cases continue to rise. The all-important cumulative incidence rate is now at its highest point since October 7, as the pandemic generally worsens throughout Europe. The situation is particularly worrying in Eastern European countries where the vaccination rate is still very low but also in the United Kingdom, which continues to report more and more cases of the new Delta Plus variant.
Cumulative incidence rate
The latest data from the Ministry of Health on Thursday October 28 show that the 14-day incidence rate has risen to 49.62 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 46.28 infections on Monday.
Infections
An additional 2,212 new cases were reported on Thursday, 1,241 in the past 24 hours. These figures are slightly lower that the same day last week, when 1,881 infections were recorded.
This brings the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 5,008,887.
In the past two weeks, a total of 23,546 positives have been registered.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Thursday that Europe is the only region in the world where infections are growing, 4% in the last week, compared to decreases in Africa (21% less), Asia Oriental (17% less), America or Southeast Asia (9% in each case).
Hospitalisations and fatalities
The rise in the cumulative incidence rate has so far not translated into increased hospital pressure.
There are 1,647 admitted for Covid treatment in Spain, 413 of whom are in the ICU. Both these figures have reduced slightly in the past 24 hours, bringing the occupancy rate of general beds to 1.34% (down from 1.38% yesterday) and 4.53% in ICUs (4.62% yesterday).
In Thursday’s health report 33 new deaths were registered, compared with 20 on the same day last week. In the past week, 72 people have lost their lives, raising the overall death toll to 87,322.
Vaccination data
As of Thursday, 88.5% of the population (37,282,484 people) have been double jabbed while 90.3% (38,013,994) have received at least one dose of the vaccination.
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