The epidemic curve grows slightly in Catalonia, where the risk of regrowth rises for the fifth consecutive day, especially in the Barcelona conurbation, although hospitals do not notice this growth due to the effects of vaccination. These are data that already reflect the effects of the Pilar bridge and the relaxation of restrictions, and that the Health officials already anticipated. However, they call not to lower our guard against the new mutation of the delta variant that the WHO is already monitoring.
According to updated incidence data this Friday for Salut, in Catalonia, where the number of infected since the beginning of the pandemic is already close to a million (a total of 999,807, a total of 657 more), today there are 339 people hospitalized, of which 87, four less than the day before, are in the ucis.
The official number of deceased It amounts to 23,987 people since the beginning of the pandemic, six of them notified in the last 24 hours, with 14 deaths in the last week, that is, two a day on average.
The risk of regrowth (EPG), an index that measures the growth potential of the epidemic, it grows for the fifth consecutive day to 49 points, two more than yesterday, a risk considered moderate that has not occurred since July 6 of last year.
The speed of propagation of the virus (Rt) is 1.11, which means that it is expanding, although in practice vaccination slows down the effects of this advance.
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The cumulative incidence of cases confirmed by PCR or antigen test at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 22.83 cases, one more than yesterday, while the accumulated incidence at 14 days (IA14) remains at 45 cases .
The positivity -the percentage of CRP and TA with a positive result- is 1.51%, four hundredths more than yesterday and well below 5%, which is the percentage established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to consider an epidemic under control.
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