SANTANDER, 29 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Cantabria has added five deaths from Covid-19 this Thursday, amounting to 842 since the start of the pandemic, 13 of them in the last week, and has also exceeded 60 hospitalized for the disease.
Although the number of new cases of coronavirus among people over 60 years of age has decreased, with 193, which is 30 less than on Wednesday, the incidence is above 1,100 positives per hundred thousand inhabitants at fourteen days, according to the latest report of Health, according to which the autonomous community remains at risk level 1.
With the 193 new positives among those over 60 years of age – the only group on which the Ministry offers case and incidence data -, the figure accumulated in the last week reaches 1,203 and 2,003 if the previous one is also taken into account.
The 14-day incidence among the oldest people rose to 1,144 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, which is 62 more than on Wednesday; and after 7 days it grew to 687, which is 30 more.
And by increasing the number of hospitalized patients, the occupation of Covid beds has risen two tenths, to 3.8%, remaining at a low risk level, and the seven-day admission rate has grown 1.4 points, to 18 %, at medium risk level.
In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) there are still four patients, with which the occupation remains at 2.1%, in controlled risk, while the admission rate has risen three tenths, to 1%, in low risk.
In Valdecilla, 38 patients are admitted, including four from the ICU, and there are 14 in the Sierrallana Hospital in Torrelavega, six in the Comarcal de Laredo and four in Reinosa.
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