The coronavirus begins to affect hospitals in terms of greater health tension. The effects of Easter and the removal of the masks are already noticeable indoor. These days we will also see the effects of the crowds of the Day of Sant Jordi. In terms of admissions, hospitals have gone from 940 to 951 people with covid since Friday, when Salut made the last report. Of them, 33 (two more), are in ucis
The virus reproduction index (the Rt, which marks the speed at which the virus reproduces) has dropped slightly from 1.39 (a figure not reached since December) to 1.18. The regrowth risk It has also dropped after rising remarkably: it goes from 326 to 313.
The number of deceased by covid in the entire epidemic amounts to 27,168, 33 of them communicated in the last four days.
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The cumulative incidence at 14 days amounts to from 253 to 290 and the seven-day from 149 to 154. Salut, like the Ministry of Health, now communicates the data twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays) and the diagnostic tests have come to focus on the most vulnerable people or seriously ill patients.
Also worrying is the positivity (the percentage of diagnostic tests that are positive): it is 15.5%, far from the 5% that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends to consider that the pandemic is under control.