Catalonia registers 8,742 cases of coronavirus and no deaths in the last 24 hours

  • Hospitalized patients increase and the risk of regrowth exceeds 2,000 points

Catalonia has registered until this Monday 1,208,779 cumulative confirmed cases of coronavirus Since the start of the pandemic –1,122,453 with a PCR test or antigen test – 8,742 more than in Sunday’s count, reports the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat through its website.

In the last 24 hours no deaths have been registered and the total number of deaths is 24,453: There are 15,617 in hospital or health center, 4,663 in residence, 1,275 at home and 2,898 that are not classifiable due to lack of information.

Regarding the currently admitted patients, the figure stands at 1,457, 68 more than at the last count.

A total of 399 patients are admitted to intensive care units (ICU) of public and private centers, 18 more than in the last count: 252 require invasive ventilation (intubation), 10 require extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and 137, support without intubation.

The speed of reproduction of the disease (rt) rises to 1.55 and the percentage of positivity of the antigen and PCR tests stands at 14.43%, while the cumulative incidence in the last 14 days is 1,358.20 per 100,000 inhabitants and the mean age of confirmed cases is 34.32 years.

The risk rate regrowth has risen: on Sunday it was 1,691 and 24 hours later it is 2,029.

Vaccination

Catalonia has administered the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine a total of 6,255,888 people since the vaccination campaign began, of which 6,056,680 already have the complete schedule: there are 35 new immunized in the last 24 hours.

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In percentages, 79% of the Catalan population is vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine, while 76.1% already have the complete vaccination schedule.

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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