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Coronavirus: Barcelona de-escalated phase

The Catalan Minister of Health, Alba Vergés, has announced that, for the moment, she will not ask the Ministry of Health that the health regions of Barcelona, ​​Metropolitana Norte and Metropolitana Sur will not go to Phase 0. It should be noted that Barcelona accumulates around 66 percent of confirmed cases of Covid-19 coronavirus from the autonomous community.

– See here the guide to hospitals in Catalonia —
— Consult here the guide of health centers of Catalonia —

In total, in the region, more than 43,500 cases of Covid-19. However, in the Catalan case, the Ministry of Health also records the suspected cases, that is, those diagnosed by health professionals without tests PCR or antibody in the middle. If these figures are taken into account, the total number of Barcelona cases amounts to more than 157,000 cases.

The number of deaths is around 8,000 for this saniatia region, with most accumulating in Barcelona city (more than 3,700) and the rest being distributed equally among the northern and southern metropolitan areas.

The positive rate for 10,000 inhabitants of Barcelona is 86.07. The number of cured exceeds 26,500 in the area, Barcelona city concentrating most of high.

Hospital and Primary Care Resources

Regarding the Primary Care resources of the region, Barcelona has 70 Basic Health Areas scattered throughout the health region, most of them being managed by the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS).

Regarding hospital resources, it has 3,718 hospital beds spread over nine hospitals:


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