The sixth wave of coronavirus continues to grow in Catalonia, where every day there are more people hospitalized for covid, most of which are unvaccinated patients. All the benchmark indicators are increasing, such as the risk of regrowth (EPG,) which is already at 220 points: it has grown more than 100 points this month. The positive rate is close to the 5% set by the WHO to consider the pandemic controlled. All this, with the extension of the covid passport beyond nightlife in the air for encourage vaccination among the reluctant and prevent more infections, which are increasingly high.
Hospitals have seen health tension increase in a few days, although it remains far from past months, thanks to vaccination. Still, it’s been going up for days: according to the incidence data updated this Tuesday For Salut, today there are 519 people hospitalized for covid, of which 119, a dozen more than the day before, are in a critical unit (ucis).
The official number of deaths from covid since the beginning of the epidemic amounts to 24,089, ten of them notified in the last hours, after three days they are reporting no deaths. The average is about three deaths a day, something that had not happened since the beginning of September.
The speed of spread of the virus (Rt) in Catalonia is the only indicator that decreases slightly, going from 1.46 to 1.42, that is, that every 100 infected infect an average of 142 people, consolidating the community transmission of the virus .
Contagions rise
Since the beginning of the epidemic, a total of 1,026,708 people have been diagnosed of covid-19 by all types of tests in Catalonia, 1,591 of them recorded in the last 24 hours, while in the last week there have been 7,475 diagnosed by PCR or antigen test (AT), with an average of more than a thousand daily, triple than two weeks ago.
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The cumulative incidence of cases confirmed by PCR or antigen test at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 95.91 cases, while the accumulated incidence at 14 days (IA14) stands at 158.6 cases.
The positivity -the percentage of CRP and TA with a positive result- is 4.92%, with a sustained growth for weeks, which is already close to 5%, which is the percentage established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider an epidemic under control.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com