Today April 21 they have registered 169 new cases of coronavirus in Galicia, What do they do a total of 8468 infections to date in the community. The data is bad news, and the highest growth in number of cases since April 11. Even so, the growth in percentage has been only 2.03%.
The news is a jug of cold water, but it has an explanation: more tests have been done today than ever, almost double the previous record. Today’s 169 new cases of contagion come from 6780 PCR tests (The previous record was 3924 tests, just yesterday). The percentage of positives in this huge number of tests it was 2.49%, the second lowest to date.
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In the case of Spain in full, they have been registered 3968 new infections, making a total of 204,178 coronavirus cases to date. In Spain, areas such as Madrid and Catalonia continue to be highly affected. The deceased now reach 21,282 people, after 430 new deaths. It is the third day in a row with less than 500 deaths.
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The data of Galicia
Of the 8468 cases of total infections in Galicia 6,416 remain active, 1,588 patients have already been discharged and 464 have died. In the last 24 hours there have been 40 discharges and only 9 deaths. Of the 6416 active patients, 5712 are experiencing the disease in their homes, 603 are on the hospital floor and 101 remain in the ICU. There are a total of 704 hospitalized patients, a slight decrease compared to the 709 that were yesterday. While the number of patients in the ward has increased by 2 (yesterday there were 601), that of the ICU has decreased from 108 yesterday.
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By health areas A Coruña it is still the most affected with 1,417 patients, followed by 1,293 in Ourense, 1,162 in the Vigo area, 1,063 patients in Santiago, 610 in Lugo, 515 in Pontevedra and 346 in Ferrol. 74,419 PCR tests have already been carried out, with a new record of 6780 carried out yesterday, of which 2.49% have been positive.
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Data of the health area of A Coruña
There are currently 154 hospitalized patients in the A Coruña Health Area. Of them, 23 are in the ICU of Chuac and 117 on the floor, 1 in the Cee hospital, 1 in the Quirónsalud, 9 in the Modelo and 3 in the San Rafael Hospital.
Data from Spain
Catalonia, Madrid, Castilla La-Mancha, Castilla y León and La Rioja continue to be very affected.
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