The Covid infections continue to grow in Cataloniawith more than 2,200 new daily diagnoses in the last week, which has once again exceeded the 1,500 hospitalized for the infection and that critical patients in ICUs increase. Some indicators are as high as in January, but the effects are not.
According to data updated this Tuesday by the Department of Health, today there are 1,517 people hospitalized for covid, 232 more than a week ago, Of which 40 are seriously ill in the ICUs, seven more than last Tuesday, 19 of them intubated and 2 with ECMO (extracorporeal respiration).
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The number of deaths from covid in the entire epidemic amounts to 27,636, of which 36 -four of them inmates from geriatric residences- have died in the last seven days, more than five deaths a day on average from the virus.
The speed of spread of the virus (Rt) today has stood at 1.22, sixteen hundredths more than a week ago, that is, every hundred infected people infect an average of 122 people, which indicates that the virus continues to grow with the expansion of the more contagious BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the omicron. Positivity is very high, as in January: 25.4%. Every day further away from the 5% established by the WHO to consider an epidemic controlled.