The coronavirus continues to affect Catalan hospitals, with a greater increase in health tension in recent weeks, since the end of the mask and the celebration of Sant Jordi. There are already more than 1,000, as in March, the people admitted (1,002), of which 33 (two more that in the last report, on Friday) are in ucis. Are the latest data issued by Salut.
The virus reproduction index (the Rt, which marks the speed at which the virus reproduces) rises minimally, from 1.18 to 1.19 and the regrowth risk It also goes up, but faster: from 329 to 352.
The number of deceased by covid in the entire epidemic amounts to 27,216, 20 of them communicated in the last four days.
Other indicators
The cumulative incidence at 14 days rises from 329 to 351 and the seven-day from 174 to 190.
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Salut, like the Ministry of Health, now communicates data twice a week (Tuesdays and Fridays) and diagnostic tests have come to focus on most vulnerable people or seriously ill patients.
Also worrying is the positivity (the percentage of diagnostic tests that are positive): it is at 19.11%, further and further from the 5% that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends to consider that the pandemic is under control. It is a percentage similar to that registered at the end of January.