With the sum of 99,671 more positives, a new record in a week From daily highs, more than six million people (6,032,297) have been infected with covid in Spain since the start of the pandemic, which maintains its escalation with an incidence of 1,360 cases (154 points more than yesterday).
The escalation of contagion started to skyrocket last week, with a first maximum of positives in a single day on Tuesday, December 21 with 49,823 infections, which have been followed by successive records until today, with almost 100,000 more cases. This is almost a 50% increase in one week.
Last Tuesday the incidence was 695.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, that is, it practically doubled in the last week.
Hospital pressure
According to the data update of the Ministry of Health on Tuesday, the incessant increase in infections still has no parallel effect on hospital pressure to the same extent as in previous waves: in the ucis the occupancy is 18.71% (1,736 patients, 21 more than yesterday), while in the plant it is 8.06% (9,852 patients, 322 more than this Monday) .
Last monday the pressure in the plant was 6.1% (two points less), while in ucis occupancy was 15.7% (three points less than this Tuesday).
However, the situation in the intensive care units of Catalonia, with a 36.6% occupancy, followed by those of the Basque Country (25.4%), the Valencian Community (24%) and Castilla y León (23.4%).
The death toll from the pandemic approaches 90,000 people, with a total of 89,253 deaths, of which 114 have been reported in the last 24 hours. Last Tuesday 94 deaths were reported, according to the report of the Ministry of Health.
Upward incidence
Contagions continue to skyrocket in Navarra, La Rioja, the Basque Country and Madrid with a incidence exceeding 2,000 cases. Even the provincial community today stands at 2,716 cases per 100,000 inhabitants at 14 days.
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The Community of Madrid has joined the group of autonomies this Tuesday with an incidence of cases exceeding 2,000 cases, with 2018, and it is the region that more new positives notified in the last 24 hours with 17,007 new infections, followed very far for the Basque Country with 5,981.
What’s more, there are already 12 territories with a transmission of more than 1,000 cases, and only Andalusia, the Valencian Community and the autonomous city of Melilla remain below this barrier.
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