The covid epidemic in Catalonia maintains its rate of spread This saturday, with 586 new positives more compared to the day before. Despite this, hospital tension decreased slightly, both in the number of patients on the ward and in critical care units. As for the first, there are 316 people hospitalized (nine less than the previous day), of which 88 are in ucis, two less than on Friday.
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Speed of spread of the virus (Rt) in Catalonia is 1.02 (yesterday it was 1.03), which means that every 100 infected infect an average of 102 people, so transmission continues to grow. The risk of regrowth has increased two points, reaching 50, although the index is considered moderate.
In the last hours, eight deaths have been reported and the global number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic stands at 24,016. 1.69% of the tests in the last week have been positive.
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