Covid indicators improve in communities, but with high infections

Most of the territories that have offered epidemiological data this Saturday register decreases in their main indicators, although the risk of transmission in Spain still high due to the accumulated incidence (exceeds 2,000 points) and the high number of cases, with more than 70,000 each day, a few days before the regulation of the use of the masks outdoors.

Catalonia, Navarra, Cantabria, Andalusia, Murcia, Aragón or Ceuta have reported an improvement in their transmission indicators and others such as Galicia, a community with the lowest occupancy in intensive care units (4.6%), reports a slight increase in infections, although it maintains its downward trend in incidence.

La Rioja has reported an increase in cases active up to 2,418 (193 more than the previous day), so that since January 22 the community did not have such a high number of covid cases (2,557), while its 14-day incidence is around 2,000 cases.

According to the Health data offered until yesterday, in the last week the accumulated incidence has fallen by 580 points, to 2,299 cases, but more than 74,000 new covid infections have been reported again.

Thus, the transmission curve of the sixth wave continues its decline and gradually eases hospital occupation, a situation that is again supported by the data that the communities have offered this Saturday.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, pressure in intensive care units has dropped this week from 22.2% to 19.9%, while on the ground it has lightened from 15% to 13%, although at least a dozen territories continue with both indicators above the very high risk threshold.

Catalonia

Catalonia has counted 12,969 new cases in a context of “obvious” improvement of its epidemiological data a few days after the nightlife reopens. The pressure in ucis continues to be the highest in Spain (around 37%) and eleven new deaths due to covid-19 have been recorded today.

In the week from January 26 to February 1, 133,682 cases have been confirmed in Catalonia, 100,306 less than the previous week.

The cumulative incidence of positives at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants has stood at 1,711 (187 less) while the incidence at 14 days is 4,708, with a decrease of 347 points.

Navarre

New cases of covid-19 detected daily continue to decline and lower than 800, when 738 were detected until yesterday, Friday, the day two deaths and five admissions have been reported. Currently 203 people remain hospitalized, 28 of them in intensive care.

Cantabria

Cumulative incidence at 14 days has dropped 197 points, up to 3,168 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants.

New infections go from the 1,084 reported in the previous balance to 814, as do admissions (11.9% occupancy on the floor and 19.1% in the ICU), although five people have died, all of them vaccinated but in a age range over 80 years and with comorbidities.

Andalusia

Lowers incidence by 50 to 757 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants in fourteen days, with 4,818 new positives. 49 deaths have been recorded due to the coronavirus, 29 more than yesterday.

Hospital occupancy is around 12% in the ICU and 10% in the ICU with 7 fewer admitted, 1,897 in total, of which 214 are in serious condition (15 less than the previous day.

Galicia

Galicia registers 4,914 new infections, a hundred more than the previous day (4,807), however the Xunta has reported that the number of people with active infection amounts to a total of 60,307, compared to 62,141 the day before.

This is about 20,000 fewer infected than on January 20, when Galicia registered the peak of this sixth wave of infections.

Aragon

Aragón has reported 1,962 positive cases corresponding to this Friday, 261 less than the previous day and 1,402 less than those registered a week before, and five deaths. The incidence in the last week drops to 1,209 cases per 100,000 inhabitants and 14 days later it stands at 3,208.

Ceuta

The incidence falls this week by 56%, which has allowed it to reduce the number of cases to 2,240 cases in 14 days, after having reached the peak of the sixth wave on January 21 with more than 6,000 cases.

The city remains at very high risk of transmission at 14 days with 2,242 cases -compared to 2,491.71 yesterday- as well as at 7 days with an incidence of 681 cases.

Murcia

Murcia registered on Friday 1,631 new infections, 64 less than the previous day, on a day in which twelve deaths were recorded.

Balearics

has reported 1,148 new cases in the last 24 hours and has reported 4 new deaths that bring the official death toll from the pandemic to 1,161 people.