“Malaga reports 482 new coronavirus cases, 54 hospitalized and 4 deaths”

The province of Malaga has registered a total of 482 cases of coronavirus this week, similar to those of seven days ago when 498 were recorded. Likewise, in this period There are 54 hospitalized and four people have died with or from Covid.

Regarding the number of hospitalizations due to coronavirus, specifically there are a total of 54 people admitted to health centers, of which one is currently in the Intensive Care Units. A week ago there were 60 admissions and the Covid ICUs also had an admitted patient.

Since March 2020 there have been a total of 17,526 hospital admissions, of which 1,251 have had to go through intensive care. In addition, four people have died with or from the disease these days, rising to 2,911 since the start of the pandemic.

According to the information provided in accordance with the new surveillance strategy approved by the National Public Health Commission, the number of positives detected in these days has been 482, which since the start of the pandemic is 322.218 contagious.

On the other hand, the number of recovered continues to increase with 235 more recordedwith a total of 314,783 people who have overcome the disease.

Nearly 4 million vaccines in the province

Regarding the vaccination process, the latest data available as of April 25 indicate that they have been administered a total of 3,817,940 doses in the province of Malaga. Thus, 1,451,386 people have received at least one dose.

Although fortunately the pandemic is not what it was thanks to the fact that more than 80% of the population of the province is vaccinated with at least two doses against the coronavirus, the Easter crowds without masks -because this protection is no longer mandatory- are taking their toll. It is the explanation that the toilets find when increase that they are detecting in cases of Covid and influenza A in the last days in the province. This was also confirmed to this newspaper by sources from the Malaga Health District.

More sick with influenza A

On the other hand, the cases of gripe. especially from the strain A. Despite the fact that the high temperatures should be putting flu symptoms into retreat -as was the case in pre-pandemic times-, there is also a repute of this pathology after the crowds of Holy Week.

“Although the processions are outdoors, this increase in cases it was expected due to the human proximity that has led to infections“, commented sources from the Malaga Health District.