The number of deaths for COVID-19 on Asturias rose last Tuesday to 2,017 people -which represent the 0.2% of the regional population– if patients who tested positive in both PCR tests and rapid antibody tests are included.
This digit more than 300 deaths counted up to that same with the criterion of Ministry of Health, which only includes in its statistics the cases that have tested positive for a PCR, according to the latest mortality report from the General Directorate of Public Health of the Principality.
The number of deaths implies that in Asturias they have died 4.9% of people who have been infected with coronavirus and what 1,073 of the deaths correspond to women and 944 to men with an age range of the group of deceased that goes from 26 to 105 years, although the average age of the victims is 83.9 years.
The 74% of deaths are centered on ages over 80 years, although in these age groups 83% of women with COVID-19 have died and only 64% of men have, and only 2.6% of the total number of people who died were under 60 years of age and 9 , 4% less than 70. On the contrary, under 70 years of age, the deceased represent 5.3% of deaths among women compared to 13.8 percent among men killed as a result of the pandemic.
The temporal analysis of deaths confirms that in the first wave, 69 deaths were reached in one week while from May the figure dropped to very low levels to grow again with the second wave until reaching a maximum of 165 deaths in seven days.
The start of the third wave It practically coincided in Asturias with the start of the vaccination campaign in residential centers and, although the death toll rose again, it has not even reached half of the death record weekly since the pandemic began.
In this sense, the report confirms that since vaccines began to be inoculated in the geriatric last December 27 the curve of deaths in residences -where 7.1% of its users have died so far- sharply away from the number of deaths among people who lived at home -13 versus 62 in the last week.
In this way while in the first wave the deceased in residences they supposed the 66,6% of the total number of deaths, in the Monday were located in the 46,2% and they have gone down in the third until the 26,7%, an evolution that has also followed the number of cases detected, which has gone from 32.2% to 12.2% and now 4%. Similarly, the fatality in nursing homes has been reduced from 34% of the cases detected in the first wave, at 23% in the second and at 11% so far in the third.
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