Catalonia It has been down for 23 consecutive days of covid infections, which relieves hospitals and ICUs, which for two days have dropped from 300 seriously ill patients and this Friday from 2,000 admitted. According to updated data this Friday by the Department of Health, today there are 1,921 people admitted, of which 288 are critical, a figure similar to that of mid-December. As significant data of the decline of the sixth wave, visits to outpatient clinics for covid: yesterday there were 14,652, while just a week before there were just over 21,000; two weeks before, 33,000 and three weeks ago 53,000. Let us remember that on January 10 100,000 visits were reached in one day.
Less than 1,000
It also highlights this Friday that the risk of outbreak (EPG), an indicator that measures the potential growth of the epidemic and which reached the maximum since the start of the health emergency on January 16, with 6,903 points, has 23 consecutive days plummetingand today it has dropped below 1,000 points, standing at 976, but it is still considered very high risk since the high risk threshold is 100 points.
The speed of spread of the virus (Rt) rises very slightly, from 0.64 to 0.65, that is, every hundred infected infect an average of 65 people, which indicates that the epidemic continues to decline.
The total number of confirmed cases of covid by all types of tests amounts to 2,365,130, of which 6,044 have been notified in the last 24 hours. Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 26,411 people have officially died in Catalonia from covid, 27 of them reported in the last 24 hours.
The cumulative incidence of positives at 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants (IA7) is 541 cases, while the incidence at 14 days (IA14) is 1,556.
Positivity -the percentage of positive results in PCR tests and antigen tests- continues to drop slightly and has stood at 13.40%, less than yesterday.
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