The Ministry of Health offered a press conference this Thursday in which they reported on the data extracted from the second wave of the seroprevalence study carried out together with the Carlos III Health Institute. It details that 5.2% of the Spanish population has suffered from the coronavirus. A national average that is above the Community. The rate of seroprevalence to coronavirus in the Valencian Community, that is, the population with antibodies in this region, has hardly grown in the second wave of the national macro-study: from 2.4% in the first survey to 2.7% in the last , with a total of 4,538 people compared to 4,292. The ENE-Covid-19 macro-study carried out between May 18 and June 1 reveals that the seroprevalence rate reaches 3.8% in the province of Castellón, 3.3% in Alicante and just 2, 1% in Valencia.
The coronavirus seroprevalence rate nationwide
Four provinces of the center of the peninsula, Madrid, Segovia, Guadalajara and Albacete, double the national seroprevalence rate, which is 5.2%, and Soria and Cuenca triple it, while others, such as Huelva, Asturias and Tarragona, do not reach 2% of the population with antibodies. These are the great territorial differences produced by the second wave of this macro-study, which confirms the first results and which revealed that the central provinces have been the most affected by the epidemic. As it moves away from the central nucleus, the population that has antibodies against the coronavirus decreases, so that the rest of Castilla y León and Castilla-La Mancha present percentages of between 5% and 10%, a situation in which Barcelona, Navarra, Teruel and Álava are also found. Girona, Lleida, Zaragoza, Huesca, Alicante, Cáceres, Malaga, Granada, Jaén, Castellón, Alicante are between 3% and 5%, while the rest does not reach 3%.
But it is Soria that once again has a higher proportion of the population with antibodies, specifically 14.7%, followed by Albacete (14.2%), Segovia (12.6%), Albacete (11.6%) and Madrid (11.4%).
The data by autonomous communities are the following:
ANDALUSIA
In this community, the population with antibodies is 2.9% compared to 2.6% in the previous round.
Most of the provinces have prevalences below 3%, except for Jaén, which has increased it from 3.6% to 4.4%; Malaga, which has reduced it from 3.8% to 3.6%; and Granada, which remains at 3.3%.
The lowest, which coincides with the smallest in Spain, occurs in Huelva (1.2%), followed by Cádiz (where it has increased from 1.6% to 2.4%), Seville (which has gone from 2.4% to 2.7%); Almería (from 2.1% to 2.5%) and Córdoba (where it has dropped from 3.2% to 2.5%).
ASTURIAS
It continues to be one of the communities with the lowest prevalence, which is 1.6%.
ARAGON
Almost all remain: Zaragoza with 5.2%; Huesca with 4.7% and Teruel with 3.5%.
BALEARES
Here the rate has been reduced from 2.4% to 1.5%.
CANARY ISLANDS
The archipelago has increased its prevalence from 2.3% to 2.7%.
The two provinces have low rates of population with antibodies: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (where it has varied from 1.4% to 2.1%) and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (which has risen from 1.4% to 3.3% ).
CANTABRIA
Here it is still 3.2%
CASTILLA LA MANCHA
It is one of the communities with the highest prevalence, 10.3%;
By provinces, the largest is in Cuenca, which has gone from 13.5% to 14.2%; Albacete (11.6%), Ciudad Real (from 11.1% to 9.8%) and Guadalajara (from 9.9% to 9.8%), or very close, as is the case of Toledo (9, 3% to 8.8%).
CASTILLA AND LEÓN
The rate in this community is 7.5%. All of them exceed the national average, especially Soria, which has increased its percentage from 14.2% to 14.7%; and Segovia, which maintains 12.6%. In the rest, they range from 5.4% of Burgos; 5.8% from León; 6.3% from Zamora; 7.2% from Valladolid; 8.3% from Ávila and 8.2% from Palencia and Salamanca.
CATALONIA
In this community, which shows a figure of 5.8%, Barcelona is the one with the highest prevalence, increasing it from 7.1% to 7.4%, quite far from Lleida (3.3%), Girona (3 , 1%) and Tarragona (1.6%).
VALENCIAN COMMUNITY
Castellón’s population is the one with the most antibodies, 3.8%, one point more than the previous wave; Alicante is followed, with 3.3%, and Valencia (2.1%). The total for the Valencian Community is 2.4%.
ESTREMADURA
In this case, the rate is 2.8%, which reaches 4% in the case of Cáceres and 2.9% in Badajoz.
GALICIA
It is another of the communities with the least population with antibodies: Orense (2%), Pontevedra and A Coruña (2.2% in both) and Lugo (2.5%).
MADRID
It increases one tenth to 11.4%.
MURCIA
The citizens of this community are among those who have the least antibodies: only 1.6%.
NAVARRA
This community has increased its percentage from 5.8% to 6.4%
BASQUE COUNTRY
It presents a lot of variability between 6.2% in Álava, up to 3.7% in Vizcaya and 2.6% in Guipúzcoa.
THE RIOJA
Only 3.9% of its inhabitants have antibodies.
CEUTA AND MELILLA
The first has reduced it to 0.5% and the second has increased it to 3.2%
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