Other record of contagions in Catalonia, what sum 177,352 new infections in one week, of which 35,333 have been in the last 24 hours, and most of the indicators continue to worsen. However, covid visits to outpatient clinics, which reached their peak last Monday, exceeding 100,000, are down for the third day, although the figure remains very high: more than 68,000, a volume that primary care centers are still collapsed.
Regarding hospital stress, also still very high. According to data updated this Friday by Salut, today there are a total of 2,524 people admitted with covid in Catalan hospitals. Such a high figure had not been seen since February of last year. With regard to critical units, which experts do not rule out reaching 600, there are already 515 (a figure that does drop compared to the last one, which was 527).
Other reference indicator is the risk of regrowth (EPG), which measures the potential growth of the epidemic: it has grown again to 4,699 points, yesterday it was at 4,380, while the speed of spread of the disease (Rt), which yesterday rebounded after falling for 12 days, rises again and passes from 1.12 to 1.15.
More than 25,000 deaths
Since the start of the pandemic, they have died in Catalonia from covid a total of 25,002 people, 28 reported in the last 24 hours, while in the last week 189 people have died from the disease, an average of 26 a day, mortality that grows again in recent days.
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The cumulative incidence of positives at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 2,275 cases, while the incidence at 14 days (IA14) is 4,187. Both indicators go up.
Positivity -the percentage of positive results in PCR tests and antigen tests- is 27.9%, slightly on the rise as well.
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